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Making American artists: stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776-1976


Abstract

"Traversing two hundred years of creativity and change, Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776-1976 probes what it meant to be an American artist when the first art school and museum in the United States was founded and what it meant to be one by the late twentieth century. Leading scholars explore understudied histories of Black, women, and LGBTQ+ artists in essays that contribute to an expanded picture of the nation and its artistic heritage."-- On back of cover.

Contents

Director's foreword / Pauline Forlenza -- President's foreword / Eric Pryor -- Pretty pictures and the (re)framing of America / Christian Ayne Crouch -- Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Anna O. Marley and Michèle Wije -- "Women in art" : women's artistic networks in Philadelphia / Anna O. Marley -- "Those who went before" : Black art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Dana E. Byrd -- Homosexual art before homosexuals / Jonathan D. Katz -- Portraiture -- History -- Still life -- Genre Painting -- Landscape.

Contributors


Publisher

  • Publication

    • New York, NY: American Federation of Arts
    • Munich: Hirmer, [2023]

Is about

  • Person

  • Subject

  • Period

    1700-1999


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Classification

  • ISBN

    • 9783777440989
    • 3777440981

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    Catalogue of an exhibition, co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, held at Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, 28 January-21 April 2024; Albuquerque Museum of Art, New Mexico, 18 May-11 August 2024; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 21 September 2024-5 January 2025; Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 5 February-11 May 2025.


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