| Description |
336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
| Note |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 12-Sept. 13, 2009. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Figure in movement ; Head : construction with crossing planes / Alexander Archipenko -- Loft buildings, no. 1 : The machine ; Tree stump ; Night at Russell's Corners / George Ault -- Red nude / Milton Avery -- Trombone player / Romare Bearden -- The beach, Newport / George Wesley Bellows -- Sugar cane : Sugar mill ; The apple is discord / Thomas Hart Benton -- Self-portrait / George Biddle -- The club ; Out to lunch / Isabel Bishop -- Harlem River from Morris Mansion : Motif milltown ; Red port in winter, Morris Canal : Red port in winter ; Moonshine fantasy ; Composition for color themes / Oscar Bluemner -- Abstraction with bouquet / Hugh Henry Breckenridge -- Waterfall : August noon ; Stormy November day / Charles Burchfield -- Polo spill / Paul Cadmus -- Reclining nude / Arthur B. Carles -- Portrait of Carlo Cirelli / Giorgio de Chirico -- Boat and grain elevators / Ralston Crawford -- Cubist landscape / Jean Joseph Crotti -- Composition 1863 / Stuart Davis -- Straw flowers ; Nana before the mirror ; Gloucester : sails and masts ; Jazz ; Tuberoses ; Three sailors on the beach / Charles Demuth -- Still life, no. 3 / Preston Dickinson -- Gear ; Frozen pool at sunset : The barn next door / Arthur Dove -- Night hawks ; Old stone bridge ; Mid Manhattan / Lyonel Feininger -- Woman / Jared French -- Chiavenna bust I / Alberto Giacometti -- Ceremonial bronze taking the form of a bird II / Morris Graves -- Shouting senator / William Gropper -- Two women walking : The theatergoers / George Grosz -- Portrait of Theresa Lewensohn / Philip Guston -- Composition / Marsden Hartley -- Corn Hill / Edward Hopper -- Newcastle, Delaware ; Abstraction : still life #6 / Earl Horter -- The arcades / Henry Koerner -- Woodstock pastorale / Jack Levine -- Rail yards from Weehawken, New Jersey / Martin Lewis -- Factory building, New Jersey / Louis Lozowick -- Wood interior ; Female figure / Man Ray -- Grain elevators at Weehawken : Weehawken sequence #3 : Weehawkin sequence #41 / John Marin -- Gayety burlesk / Reginald Marsh -- The white oak ; View from ship / Jan Matulka -- Waiting for the bus / Kenneth Hayes Miller -- Wounded stag / Elie Nadelman -- Rain forest column XXIV / Louise Nevelson -- Red poppies / Emil Nolde -- Nude series V / Georgia O'Keeffe -- Game of pretend / Alton Pickens -- Bathers, New England / Maurice B. Prendergast -- Sea monster ; The boat / Odilon Redon -- The accordionist ; Supplication / Hugo Robus -- Synchromist nude ; Synchromy No. 8, part II / Morgan Russell -- A waterfall / John Singer Sargent -- Landscape (with bridge) / Morton Schamberg -- Study for "Jersey homesteads mural" ; Melancholia / Ben Shahn -- Water : Neighbors : Neighbors No. 2 / Charles Sheeler -- Study for "Battle of Lights" ; Portrait of Joe Gould ; Palm tree and bird : Tropical floral : Tropical flowers ; Golden fall / Joseph Stella -- Study in form / Joseph Storrs -- Pierrot / Pavel Tchelitchew -- Four figures : The forest / Max Weber -- Plowing / Grant Wood -- Mountains ; The awakening / Marguerite Thompson Zorach -- Yosemite Falls / William Zorach. |
| Summary |
"In 1990 archaeologist Charles K. Williams II began seriously to acquire paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and drawings by modern American artists, after about ten years of collecting 19th- and 20th-century American and European prints. Williams amassed an important collection that includes examples by most of the major American artists and movements of the early 20th century." "This fully illustrated catalogue features entries on more than one hundred significant works by artists including Stieglitz Circle painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Arthur Dove; Precisionists Charles Demuth, Ralston Crawford, George Ault, and Charles Sheeler; and Philadelphia modernists Arthur B. Carles, Hugh Henry Breckenridge, and Earl Horter. Sculptures by Elie Nadelman, John Storrs, Alberto Giacometti, and Louise Nevelson are included. Of special note is Thomas Hart Benton's painting The Apple of Discord and a rare landscape drawing by American Regionalist Grant Wood."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Modernism (Art) -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Modernism (Art) |
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United States. |
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Modernism (Art) -- Europe -- Exhibitions.
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Europe. |
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Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Art, European -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, European. |
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Williams, Charles K., 1930- -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Williams, Charles K., 1930- |
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Art museums. |
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Art -- Private collections -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Art -- Private collections. |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Criss, Jennifer T.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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| Added Title |
Charles K. Williams II collection |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Shoemaker, Innis H. Adventures in modern art. Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, c2009 (OCoLC)620202124 |
| ISBN |
9780876332153 PMA cloth |
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0876332157 PMA cloth |
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9780876332160 PMA paper |
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0876332165 PMA paper |
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9780300149784 Yale cloth |
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0300149786 Yale cloth |
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