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American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum
Artists Born by 1876

This new catalogue documents one of the world's foremost collections of American art: from colonial portraiture and Hudson River School landscape to American Impressionism and early modern Realism.

·2-volume hardback in a slipcase.

·Features nearly 700 paintings by 340 artists, with 160 color plates and 860 black-and-white illustrations.

·Includes masterpieces by John Singer Sargent, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Frederic Church, George Bellows, and Mary Cassatt.

·Includes artist biographies and individual interpretive entries for each painting, accompanied by provenance, exhibition history, and full technical analysis.

·Includes a two-part introduction tracing the history of Brooklyn’s American paintings collection.

By Teresa A. Carbone. With contributions by Barbara Dayer Gallati & Linda S. Ferber

The Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award Committee has selected the Brooklyn Museum’s catalogue, American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum, as this year’s award recipient. The Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for museum scholarship is presented annually to authors of an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art.