Three Hundred Years of American Painting

New York: Time Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's brown cloth over tan cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine & cover. Profusely illustrated with over 250 full-color reproductions. Includes a list of One Hundred Collections of American Painting, a Chronology, a Bibliography, an Index and an Introduction by John Walker, director of the National Gallery of Art. The author, Alexander Eliot, art editor of TIME, stretches a wonderful panorama before our eyes. At the beginning are the earliest pictures which can be claimed to be American, and at the end are canvases almost too new to be varnished. The great leaders of American painting are here, but so are the lesser artists, the anonymous primitives, the specialists in genre, the painters of cowboys and the West, up to the most modern and experimental works. The artists covered in book include: Captain Thomas Smith, John Greenwood, John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Rembrandt Peale, John Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart, Washington Alston, Henry Inman, Edward Hicks, William Sharp, Fitz Hugh Lane, Thomas Cole, John James Audubon, George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, William Harnett, Frederick Edwin Church, Abbott Thayer, James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, George Innes, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, William Glackens, Joseph Stella, Charles Demuth, Max Weber, Georgia O'Keeffe, Milton Avery, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ben Shahn, Ivan Albright, Max Beckmann, Josef Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Morris Graves, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, James Brooks, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, and many more. Over 140 artists are featured with examples of their work and biographies. Hardcover without dust jacket or slipcase. The volume is tight and square. The fep is stained and there is a small stain and closed tear on the rep. All of the plates and text are clean and bright. . Boards show fading and shelf-wear, there is an ink mark on back cover and corners are bumped. Endpapers are faded. . Color Illustrations. Folio (9.5 x 12.75"). x, 318 pp .