American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry N. Abrams, 1989. Cloth, x, 247 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 29 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Revivals and Revitalizations: American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 17, 1989 through January 14, 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art possesses a remarkable collection of about 175 pastels by important American artists such as Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Arthur G. Dove, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Because of their extreme fragility, these works are rarely exhibited and are never loaned to other institutions. The collection ranges from charming eighteenth-century pastel portraits to abstract works by twentieth-century modernists. American Pastels, prepared under the supervision of Doreen Bolger, Curator in the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, includes extensive entries for thirty-five pastels, all reproduced in full color. The catalogue opens with two indepth essays: 'Revival & Revitalization' by Doreen Bolger and six graduate students from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, provides an art-historical overview of pastel painting in America from 1880 to 1930; 'Materials & Techniques' by Marjorie Shelley, a Museum conservator, covers the technical aspects of the delicate medium." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Philippe de Montebello and James R. McCredie; Acknowledgments, by Doreen Bolger; American pastels, 1880-1930: revival & revitalization, by Doreen Bolger, Mary Wayne Fritzsche, Jacqueline Hazzi, Gail Stavitsky, Mary L. Sullivan, Marc Vincent, and Elizabeth Wylie; American pastels of the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries: materials & techniques, by Marjorie Shelley; Catalogue, by Mary Wayne Fritzche, Jacqueline Hazzi, Gail Stavitsky, Mary L. Sullivan, Marc Vincent, and Elizabeth Wylie; Check list of American pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to.