
An Endless Panorama of Beauty
Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection of American Art
Joyce Henri Robinson(Author)
Palmer Museum of Art (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 2. January 2003
Book
Hardback
164 pages
978-0-911209-55-6 (ISBN)
Description
This catalogue from the Palmer Museum of Art of The Pennsylvania State University accompanied an exhibition, also entitled An Endless Panorama of Beauty, that presented highlights from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss collection of American art. Their remarkable collection ranges from the Revolutionary period of American history through the mid-twentieth century and includes major works by such famed artists as John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Charles Demuth, and Georgia O'Keeffe, among many others. An Endless Panorama of Beauty is the first publication devoted to the Snowiss holdings in American art. Fully illustrated, it discusses the scope and significance of their rich yet little-known collection.
The contributors to the catalogue-Joyce Henri Robinson, Leo G. Mazow, and Julia Dolan-also set the art into the context of American social and cultural history. Mazow's introductory essay concerns the expanded horizons and deeply recessed spaces frequently found in nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape paintings, exploring the ways in which these represent a "panoramic sensibility" at the core of American cultural history.
The contributors to the catalogue-Joyce Henri Robinson, Leo G. Mazow, and Julia Dolan-also set the art into the context of American social and cultural history. Mazow's introductory essay concerns the expanded horizons and deeply recessed spaces frequently found in nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape paintings, exploring the ways in which these represent a "panoramic sensibility" at the core of American cultural history.
Reviews / Votes
"Turning the pages of this handsome book is to view many horizons of place and time in America: chasm landscapes of Robert Street and of David Johnson; Peale and Copley portraits of colonial ladies and gentlemen; seascapes of Bricher and of Homer defining our eastern shores; the new light and forms Bierstadt and O'Keeffe found in the American West; and modernist Dove and impressionist Hassam depicting human alteration of the land in between."-Virginia Quarterly Review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
University Park
United States
Publishing group
Pennsylvania State University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
63 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 292 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
1107 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-911209-55-6 (9780911209556)
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Person
Joyce Henri Robinson is curator at the Palmer Museum of Art and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Art History of The Pennsylvania State University.
Leo G. Mazow is curator of American art at the Palmer Museum of Art.
Leo G. Mazow is curator of American art at the Palmer Museum of Art.