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Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Collection of Fine Arts, Published 1972. Wraps, 141 pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with color and black-and-white plates throughout; with U.S. map of the parks and monuments treated printed across the endpapers; bibliography (pp. 137-139) and index of artists.
In Very Good condition. Brown illustrated paper wraps with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners; mild shelf-wear with some toning and fading to the spine. Binding tight. Previous owner's signature in ink at upper right of the half-title page; half-title mildly toned around the edges but otherwise clean. Otherwise unmarked.Catalogue of the exhibition National Parks and the American Landscape, held at the Smithsonian Institution National Collection of Fine Arts (June 23 to August 27, 1972) as part of the National Parks Centennial Year, marking the one-hundredth anniversary of Yellowstone's founding as the first national park. Curated by William H. Truettner and Robin Bolton-Smith, the catalogue traces the intertwined nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century histories of American landscape painting and the national park movement, with works covering seventeen parks and monuments from Acadia to Hawaii Volcanoes. Artists represented include Albert Bierstadt, Frederic E. Church, Thomas Cole, Thomas Moran, Sanford R. Gifford, Thomas Hill, William H. Holmes, George Catlin, Worthington Whittredge, John Muir, Titian R. Peale, Fitz Hugh Lane, Walter Trumbull, Thomas A. Ayres, and others. Foreword by Joshua C. Taylor (Director, National Collection of Fine Arts); introduction by Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton.Contents: Foreword by Joshua C. Taylor; Acknowledgments; National Parks' Centennial Year by Rogers C. B. Morton; National Parks and the American Landscape by William H. Truettner and Robin Bolton-Smith; Catalog of Exhibition (Acadia, Canyon de Chelly, Devils Tower, Glacier Bay, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Hawaii Volcanoes, Kings Canyon and Sequoia, Mesa Verde, Mount Rainier, Pipestone, Rocky Mountain, Scotts Bluff, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, Memorabilia); Bibliography; Index of Artists.