American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2009. Cloth, xviii, 222 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 32 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 12, 2009 to January 24, 2010, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 28 to May 23, 2010. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This beautiful volume explores American paintings of people engaged in the tasks and pleasures of everyday life between the colonial era and World War I. These works reflect key historical and cultural developments, including the growth of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration; changing gender roles; and the shifting location and meaning of the frontier.Focusing on leading artists, from John Singleton Copley to John Sloan, the authors address narrative content in colonial and early national portraits; genre scenes of the Jacksonian period; images from the Civil War era; and works by American Impressionists and realists in the decades before and after 1900. Like the exhibition it accompanies, the book reflects transformations in artists aspirations and viewers expectations as America evolved from isolated British outpost to leading independent participant in international affairs." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Inventing American stories, 1765-1830, by Carrie Rebora Barratt; Stories for the public, 1830-1860, by Bruce Robertson; Stories of war and reconciliation, 1860-1877, by Margaret C. Conrads; Cosmopolitan and candid stories, 1877-1915, by H. Barbara Weinberg.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Collectible.