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THE
STORY
OF
AMERICAN
PAINTING
Abraham
A.
Davidson
America's
painting
and
America's
history
are
closely
intertwined;
The
Story
of
American
American
Painting
recounts
an
adventure
in
art
that
in
many
aspects
parallels
the
rise
of
the
nation.
lore
of
Unique
in
its
blend
of
the
art
and
the
our
coimtry,
it
traces
the
development
of
painting
from
the
mid-seventeenth
century
to
the
1970s—
from
the
time
of
the
first
colonies
imtil
today.
Every
painting
discussed
is
illus-
trated,
many
in
full
color.
This
gallery
of
pic-
tures,
some
famous
and
familiar
masterpieces,
others
less
well
known
but
of
equal
interest,
creates
an
absorbing
panorama
of
American
people,
places,
and
events.
It
is
a
fitting
com-
panion
to
H.
W. and
Dora
Jane
Janson's
ever-
popular
Story
of
Painting.
The
fast-moving
text
is
divided
into
nine
chapters,
each
devoted
to
a
particular
branch
or
type
of
painting.
Each
pursues
its
subject
from
the
earliest
stage
to
the
most
recent.
Chapter
One,
for
example,
considers
first
the
native
roots
in
American
folk
painting
through
Grandma
Moses.
Chapter
Two
deals
with
American
history
as
reflected
in
paintings
rang-
ing
from
such
eighteenth-century
classics
as
Benjamin
West's
Penn's
Treaty
with
the
In-
dians
to
modern
masterpieces
like
Ben
Shahn's
The
Passion
of
Sacco
and
Vanzetti.
Successive
chapters
are
similarly
concerned
with
individ-
ual
strands
in
the
fabric
of
traiture,
American
genre
art:
por-
nature
painting,
painting,
and
symbolism,
urban
landscape,
Ab-
stract
Expressionism,
and
the
many
currents
of
contemporary
art.
The
great
figures
and
events
of
American
history
are
represented:
Paul
Revere's
portrait
painted
by
Copley;
the
ex-
huming
of
a
mastodon
in
1806,
an
American
archaeological
first,
painted
by
Charles
Willson
Peale;
scenes
of
the
opening
of
the
West
painted
by
George
Caleb
Bingham;
the
haunting
im-
fantasy
agery
of
the
visionary
tradition
as
represented
by
such
artists
as
Albert
Pinkham
Ryder
and
Louis
Eilshemius.
All
these
motifs—
artistic,
historical,
social,
and
fantastic—
are
skillfully
coordinated
by
the
author,
Abraham
A.
Davidson,
Associate
Pro-
fessor
at
Temple
University
and
Tyler
School
of
Art
in
Philadelphia.
The
range,
style,
and
subject
matter
of
the
paintings
he
deals
with
are
immense,
and
all
the
stellar
names
are
rep-
resented:
Winslow
Homer,
James
Whistler,
Thomas
Eakins,
Jackson
Pollock,
Joseph
Stella,
Mark
Rothko,
Willem
de
Kooning,
Andy
War-
hol—to
name
only
a
few.
Indexed
for
easy
reference,
The
Story
of
American
Painting
is
a
book
can
to
own
and
cherish.
for
every
Ameri-
-U.^i^r,
At
A^l^t.

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