The Smith College Museum of Art

The Smith College Museum of Art PDF

Author: Smith College. Museum of Art

Publisher: Hudson Hills

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781555951948

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Smith College art professors Davis and Leshko showcase 100 paintings and sculptures from their institution's vaunted collection, encompassing Americans from Gilbert Stuart to Louise Nevelson and Europeans from Corot to Henry Moore. In the introduction, how and why Smith became steward of such a fine body of work is ascribed to the school's high-minded mission and its generous alumni donors. The rest of the book is divided into two sections, one American and the other European. Each individual full-color reproduction is accompanied by an informative one-page essay and a brief reading list. During several years of renovations at Smith, the items featured in this book are traveling to diverse sites, which should increase the book's appeal. 118 colour & 1 b/w illustrations

Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art

Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art PDF

Author: Ann H. Sievers

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781555951849

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"The Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts, is widely acknowledged to have one of the most important college art collections in America, and one of its areas of extraordinary strength is its renowned collection of master drawings. This volume presents sixty-eight great sheets, all reproduced in full color, including many versos. Covering six centuries of brilliant draftsmanship, it ranges from a rare silverpoint drawing of the late fifteenth century, one of the most celebrated of all early Netherlandish portrait drawings, attributed to Dieric Bouts, to a 1954 watercolor by Mark Tobey. Interestingly, many of the drawings relate to works in other mediums also in the collection of the Smith College Museum of Art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Women's Culture

Women's Culture PDF

Author: Kathleen D. McCarthy

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1993-02-15

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0226555844

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Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge extensive nonprofit marketing systems, and "feminize" new occupations.

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