Smithsonian American Art Museum
Fall 2013 issue of American Art

 

I'm pleased to announce the publication of the fall 2013 issue of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's scholarly journal American Art (volume 27, no. 3).

 

Since its founding in 1987, American Art has been an indispensable resource for scholars, collectors, and museum-goers who want to enrich their understanding of the nation's art and culture American Art encompasses all aspects of the country's visual heritage from colonial to contemporary times.
 
The fall 2013 issue of the journal opens with a series of short essays on early exhibitions of modern art in America, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the landmark 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art (popularly known as the Armory Show). These texts discuss the 1916 Forum Exhibition of American Painters; the People's Art Guild Exhibition, held on New York's Lower East Side in 1917; an early exhibition of Albert C. Barnes's collection staged at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1921; and a display of the impressive modern art holdings of publisher and editor Scofield Thayer held at the Worcester Art Museum in 1923. 

  

Feature-length articles include:

  • "Armory Shows: The Spectacular Life of a Building Type to 1913," by Alan C. Braddock, Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies at The College of William & Mary
  • "Fitz Henry Lane and the Compromised Landscape, 1848-1865," by Robert Slifkin, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
  • "The Paradoxical Pleasures of Asher B. Durand's Ariadne (ca. 1831-35)," by Catherine Holochwost, Assistant Professor of Art History at LaSalle University

Enjoy!

  
For more information on the journal American Art, including how to subscribe or submit a manuscript for publication consideration, please see www.journals.uchicago.edu/amart. Queries may be sent to [email protected].

 

 

Emily D. Shapiro

Executive editor, American Art

 

 


Image credit: Cover image, detail of Charles Demuth, After Sir Christopher Wren, 1920. Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cardboard, 24 x 20 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y. Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982. Image � The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

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