American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School -1987

Excellent Used Condition.Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School is a large undertaking of the Metropolitan's Departments of American Art, and is an integral part of its program to exhibit and explain the best art of our country. Previous to 1987, the Museum mounted major retrospectives of the work of Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, George Bellows, and Winslow Homer, among others. This exhibition and its accompanying book were conceived as a presentation of the art of the Hudson River School and a summary of the most up-to-date scholarship on the School itself. The organizers and authors brought together a number of the finest and most historically important pictures of the School, thereby offering a broad and even-handed survey of thought and critical comment on the artists and their works. Because of the tremendous surge of interest in the Hudson River School (traceable in large part to Paintings of the Hudson River School, the Museum's small but pioneering exhibition held in 1917; to The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition, the exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945; and to the publication in 1949 of M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) 10 "x 12" (approx). 347 pages