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200 years of American sculpture by David R Godine ( Book )
9 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 2,240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The flowering of American folk art, 1776-1876 by Jean Lipman ( Book )
8 editions published between 1974 and 1997 in English and held by 2,171 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This guide to folk art in America, based on the landmark Whitney Museum exhibit of 1974, illustrates more than 400 outstanding examples of American craft covering four major categories: painted, drawn, or stitched pictures; sculpture; architectural decoration; and decorated household objects. View page after page of extraordinary talent, evidenced in weathervanes, ship figureheads, tinware, toys, quilts, painted furniture, and more."

The art of Richard Diebenkorn by Jane Livingston ( Book )
4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 2,098 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Twelve years later, in 1967, Diebenkorn moved back into abstraction, embarking on the renowned Ocean Park series of paintings and drawings that he continued to develop until the end of his life

Calder's universe by Alexander Calder ( Book )
18 editions published between 1976 and 1992 in 3 languages and held by 1,889 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jasper Johns by Jasper Johns ( Book )
13 editions published between 1977 and 1994 in English and held by 1,884 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This extraordinary book pairs two major talents of our time, the painter/sculptor/printmaker Jasper Johns and the physician/novelist/filmmaker Michael Crichton. Since it first appeared in 1977, Michael Crichton's Jasper Johns has been considered the preeminent study of one of America's foremost living artists. Abrams is proud now to publish this completely revised, expanded, and updated version of a modern classic. Jasper Johns has often been called an "artist's artist." In his use of found objects and commonplace imagery, he creates tantalizing, intellectually demanding works of unparalleled originality and uncommon beauty. His new work, with its puns, optical illusions, and embedded images ranging from George Ohr pots to the Isenheim Altarpiece to Picasso etchings, has attracted an unprecedented level of intense critical attention. Here Michael Crichton, author of The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun, among other bestsellers, brings to bear his own extraordinary gifts, particularly his analytic skill and his superior abilities as narrator and storyteller. Crichton, who has known Johns and collected his work for more than twenty years, offers a dazzling succession of intimate glimpses of Johns' potent and seemingly contradictory aspects, many of them highlighted by interviews with the artist, his dealers, and distinguished contemporary critics. He also conducts a powerful, sensitive, and wide reaching critique of Johns' work - and in so doing offers an intriguing investigation into the very nature of the artistic response. Accompanying Crichton's text are 186 black-and-white illustrations, including works by Johns, photographs of him, and comparative examples. Then comes a spectacular display of 231 paintings, prints, sculptures, and drawings by Jasper Johns, ranging from his earliest pieces to his most recent works, some forty years later. Of these, 128 are reproduced in duotone and 103 in full color, including six magnificent foldout pages - the most lavish view of the artist's work ever assembled between book covers. Meticulous scholarship supports this presentation of Jasper Johns by Michael Crichton in every respect. Notes, a selected bibliography, and an index of illustrated works complete this extraordinary volume - a book for the layman, for the art specialist, and for all who love contemporary art

Winslow Homer by Winslow Homer ( Book )
17 editions published between 1944 and 1973 in English and held by 1,839 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The book discusses and reproduces more than two hundred paintings, watercolors, and drawings that span Homer's career, all of which are discussed in entries by Cikovsky and Kelly. It begins with the Civil War paintings that first brought Homer's remarkable artistic mentality to public attention, in which he movingly expressed the profound implications the war held for the nation. Homer's interest in national themes is further explored in his works of the later 1860s and 1870s, which embraced a wide spectrum of American life. His shift toward more idealized and heroic imagery and his withdrawal to a solitary life at Prout's Neck, Maine, in the 1880s are discussed as turning points leading to the great achievements of his last two decades. After considering his beautiful late watercolors of the Tropics and the Adirondacks, and his monumental Prout's Neck seascapes, the book concludes with a reassessment of the tragic, almost visionary paintings of his last years. The book is also the catalogue for a major exhibition on Homer's works, opening at the National Gallery of Art on 15 October 1995 and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Edward Hopper : the art and the artist by Edward Hopper ( Book )
14 editions published between 1980 and 1996 in English and and held by 1,709 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The American century : art & culture, 1900-1950 by Barbara Haskell ( Book )
4 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 1,708 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This book considers American art as a response to political, social, and economic conditions. It opens at the start of the century, when boundaries between high art and all that simmered beneath it were collapsing. In these pages, we are able to see the dramatic changes that characterized art in the first half of the century. We discover why the New York Armory Show of 1913 was such a shock to many artistic sensibilities; how Alfred Stieglitz and his circle drove photography toward modernism, a movement that would eventually include all the arts; and how the Depression (and the WPA) shaped a generation of artists, leaving a rich, public legacy in photography, painting, literature, and architecture. By the century's midpoint, the artistic output of this still young nation was astonishing."--BOOK JACKET

American folk painters of three centuries by Jean Lipman ( Book )
9 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 1,705 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Catalogus bij de overzichtstentoonstelling van 37 naïeven in 1980 in het Whitney Museum in New York

Grant Wood, the regionalist vision by Wanda M Corn ( Book )
4 editions published between 1983 and 1995 in English and held by 1,440 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Catalogue of a traveling exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and other galleries