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Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Date: 1993. 1993. National Museum of American Art ISBN 0937311022 9780937311028 [US]

Washington: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Date: 1993. Softcover. As New. Illus. wraps. 408 pp. 100 color, 620+ bw plates. When the doors to the Fine Arts Palace at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opened in the spring of 1893, the American art inside was heralded as a triumph. Writing in Century Magazine, art critic Marianna G. Van Rensselaer proclaimed, "The Columbian Exhibition will prove to the most doubting and critical spirit that American art exists, that it is capable of great things, and that it can do great things in a way distinctly its own." Fairgoers were treated to achievements such as Thomas Eakins's Gross Clinic, Winslow Homer's Eight Bells, Eastman Johnson's Cranberry Harvest, and countless other now well-known works, in addition to pieces by many lesser-known artists. Not only did the exposition show the apogee of American art, it also occurred at a moment of immense cultural change - two significant indications being Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis on the closing of the frontier and the recently completed national census which announced the population's shift from rural to urban areas. As Evan Turner, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, has said, "The Fair shaped national culture as has no other event in the history of the country." The National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian institution spent five years researching the paintings and sculpture shown at the ...

Washington DC: National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Date: 1993. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 408 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461262 1993. National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ISBN 0937311022 9780937311028 [US]

National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Date: 1993. Trade Paperback. When the doors to the Fine Arts Palace at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opened in the spring of 1893, the American art inside was heralded as a triumph. Writing in Century Magazine, art critic Marianna G. Van Rensselaer proclaimed, "The Columbian Exhibition will prove to the most doubting and critical spirit that American art exists, that it is capable of great things, and that it can do great things in a way distinctly its own." Fairgoers were treated to achievements such as Thomas Eakins's Gross Clinic, Winslow Homer's Eight Bells, Eastman Johnson's Cranberry Harvest, and countless other now well-known works, in addition to pieces by many lesser-known artists. Not only did the exposition show the apogee of American art, it also occurred at a moment of immense cultural change - two significant indications being Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis on the closing of the frontier and the recently completed national census which announced the population's shift from rural to urban areas. As Evan Turner, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, has said, "The Fair shaped national culture as has no other event in the history of the country." The National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian institution spent five years researching the paintings and sculpture shown at the exposition and have jointly produced this ...

National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Date: 1993-03-15. Paperback. Good. 1993. National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ISBN 0937311022 9780937311028 [US]

(Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Date: 1993. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. Fine in pictorial wrappers. 408 pages. 1993. Smithsonian Institution ISBN 0937311022 9780937311028 [US]

National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Date: 1993-03-15. Paperback. Used:Good. 1993. National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ISBN 0937311022 9780937311028 [US]