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Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression
176 pp., illustrated
Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Kristina Wilson, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (October 5, 2004–June 5, 2005), with essay by Wilson.
A fascinating look at how designers in the 1930s mixed avant-garde principles with middle-class taste and marketing savvy to generate a distinctly American streamlined aesthetic.
Item# 8273
Price $45; Members $40.50
ISBN 0-300-10475-8 |
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Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
Hardcover, 358 pp., 146 color illus.
Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Robin Jaffee Frank, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (October 3–December 30, 2000); Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina (February 10–April 8, 2001); Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussets (April 27–July 31, 2001), with essay by Frank.
A poignant investigation into American private life between 1760 and 1840, this exhibition gathered together more than a hundred portrait miniatures, painted by such renowned figures as Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale. Frank employs these exquisite artifacts as clues to the love and life stories of their owners. “Rediscovering the identities of artists and sitters,” she writes, “and understanding the personal associations that miniatures commemorate, returns to them their power to move us.”
Item# 12040
Price $35; Members $31.50
ISBN 0-89467-086-7
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