This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculptors. The sculptors include Paul Wayland Bartlett, Adolph Alexander Weinman, Bessie Potter Vannoh, James Earle Fraser, Max Weber, Elie Nadelman, Jose de Creeft, Malvina Hoffman, Hugo Robus and John Henry Bradley Storrs. A biography of each of the sculptors summarizes the artist ...
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This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculptors. The sculptors include Paul Wayland Bartlett, Adolph Alexander Weinman, Bessie Potter Vannoh, James Earle Fraser, Max Weber, Elie Nadelman, Jose de Creeft, Malvina Hoffman, Hugo Robus and John Henry Bradley Storrs. A biography of each of the sculptors summarizes the artist's life, and catalogue entries discuss each of the objects treated in this volume in terms of its subject and creation, its place in the artist's oeuvre, other extant versions of the work, and its complete exhibition history after it entered the Metropolitan's collection. The biographies and catalogue entries incorporate the very latest scholarship as well as the wealth of archival material at the Museum to present a brief but thorough and up-to-date documentation of each artist and work.
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VG+/VG-dustjacket have removable vinyl covers and small white labels at base of spines. Ex art library copy with little sign of use. Ink stamp on all three text block edges. Small stamp on verso of title-page, card pocket and barcode sticker on rear... 2 vols. Brick-red cloth, gilt letters on spines, maroon & white & illus. dust jackets. Vol. 1: 480 pp., 198 BW illus., 29 color illus. Vol. 2: 344 pp., 178 BW illus., 22 color illus. A two-volume set not always found sold together, as they were published separately. Volume 1: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865. Volume 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. "Together the two volumes record the Metropolitan Museum's distinguished and comprehensive colleciton of late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American sculpture, which is particularly strong in neoclassical and Beaux Arts works and isacclaimed for its preeminent group of lifesize statues in marble and bronze, a selection of which is on view in the Charles Engelhard Court. The Museum's holdings accurately document the history of American sculpture and its development as a profession, from the artists who lived in Italy and carved in marble and those who studied in Paris and cast in bronze, to those who worked only in the United States and were pioneers in the techniques of their art." (dj, vol. 2) A terrific resource to have at one's fingertips.
