Toward an American identity : selections from the Wichita Art Museum collection of American art / Novelene Ross with an essay by David Cateforis ; catalog edited by David Cateforis ; entries contributed by Bryan J. Bach, [et al ...].

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Ross, Novelene.

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272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Exhibition also held at Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, March 6-July 26, 1998, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, August 21-October 18, 1998, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa, November 13, 1998-January 10, 1999, and Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, January 29-March 28, 1999.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Wichita Art Museum, Oct. 12, 1997-Jan. 25, 1998, and at 4 other U.S. museums through Mar. 28, 1999.
Includes essay discussing the influence of Louise Caldwell Murdock and Elizabeth Stubblefield Navas on the founding and development of the Wichita Art Museum's collection of American art.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Inez S. Wolins -- Acknowledgements / Serena Rattazzi, Novelene Ross -- Toward an American identity: the formulation of the Wichita Art Museum collection of American art in an era of aesthetic nationalism / Novelene Ross -- "That our soil will produce the artist": American landscape painting and national identity, ca. 1890-1950 / David Cateforis -- "An art of the folk for the folk": images of the people in American painting from the Wichita Art Museum Collection, ca. 1890-1950 / Novelene Ross -- Catalogue -- Index.

ISBN:

0939324512 (pbk.)
9780939324514 (pbk.)

Subject:

Wichita Art Museum Exhibitions.
Painting, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Peinture américaine 20e siècle Expositions.
Painting, American.
Malerei
Ausstellung
Wichita (Kan., 1998)
Painting, American Exhibitions.
Painting, Modern 19th century United States. Exhibitions.
Painting, Modern 20th century United States Exhibitions.
Art patrons Kansas Wichita.
USA

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Exhibition catalogs.

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Cateforis, David.
Ross, Novelene
Bach, Brian J.
Wichita Art Museum.
Mississippi Museum of Art.

Selections from the Wichita Art Museum collection of American art

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Location: Library main 179931
Call No.: ID ND210.W44; ID:98-B46
Status: Available

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