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Item Number: 132306
Title: The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement
Author: Marley, Anna O
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780812246650
Description: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 28cm., hardcover, 248pp., 91 color plates, numerous text illus. Exhibition held at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Summary: Focused on the period 1887-1920, The Artist's Garden exhibition and catalogue will tell the story of American Impressionist artists and the growing popularity of gardening as a middle-class leisure pursuit at the turn-of-the-20th-century, bringing together paintings, sculpture, books, and gardening ephemera.The Artist's Garden will be organized around themes of American Artists/European Gardens; the Lady in the Garden, Leisure and Labor in the American Garden; the Urban Garden: the Artist’s Garden; and the Garden in Winter/Garden at Rest. Among the artists whose works will be included are: Hugh Henry Breckinridge, Cecilia Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Charles C. Curran, Maria Oakey Dewing, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Daniel Garber, Philip Leslie Hale, Childe Hassam, Violet Oakley, Jane Peterson, Jessie Wilcox Smith, John H. Twachtman, Robert W. Vonnoh, and J. Alden Weir.
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