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History of Art

Thomas Cole's Journey Atlantic Crossings

Barringer Tim, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Riopelle Christopher, Vittoria Shannon

ISBN: HB: 9781588396402, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 254 colour and black&white illus.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W....

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History of Art

Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River

Luarca-Shoaf Nenette, Barry Claire, Heugh Nancy, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Walker Andrew J, Turk Janeen, Conrads Margaret C., Benjamin Brent R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300206708, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 26.7x27.9 cm, 174 colour images and 10 black&white illus.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life, for which he is now famous, in the 1840s. "Navigating the West" explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and econom...

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Contemporary Art

American Moderns on Paper Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin

ISBN: HB: 9780300151664, Yale University Press, April 2010
216 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 190 colour illus.

"American Moderns on Paper" presents a selection of approximately 100 of the finest watercolours, pastels, and drawings by leading American modernists from the Wadsworth Atheneum's renowned collection of American art. Works by Sloan, O'Keeffe, Hopper...

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Design

Samuel Colt Arms, Art, and Invention

Houze Herbert G., Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Cooper Carolyn C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300111330, Yale University Press, May 2006
288 pp., 30.4x24.8 cm, 255 colour images, 71 black&white illus.

Samuel Colt (1814-1862) first patented his 'Colt' revolver in 1835 and quickly redefined the architecture of handguns. This stunning book traces the evolution of Colt's most famous invention and examines his ambition for artistic excellence as well a...

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