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Cargando... Celebrating Florida: Works of Art from the Vickers Collection (Florida Sesquicentennial)por Gary R. Libby
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A full-color collection of important paintings, drawings, and prints Celebrating Florida: Worksof Art from the Vickers Collection illustrates in full color a generous selection ofpaintings, drawings, and prints by some of the world's most significant artistswho came to Florida from 1823 to 1950 to capture the "Sunshine State." This book includes works by GeorgeCope, William Glackens, Jane Peterson, Martin Johnson Heade, Herman Herzog,Winslow Homer, George Inness, Frank Shapleigh, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Arrah LeeGaul, and William Aiken Walker. Essays on each artist present an aesthetic,historical, social, and cultural overview designed to illuminate thesignificance of the works of art presented. Featuringessays by Erik Robinson, former historian at the Museum of Florida History,Tallahassee, and the late Wendell Garrett, former editor of Antiques magazine,and Nicolai Cikovsky, former curator of American and British painting at theNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., this volume helps to situateindividual works in Florida's past. Their essays discuss Florida's history, exploreits society and statehood in 1845, and introduce the Vickers Collection. The newpreface in this paperback edition refreshes readers on the importance of thiscollection. In highlighting and contextualizing these influential works, Celebrating Florida places them withinthe mainstream of American art. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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