Art of Tennessee

by Frist Center for the Visual Arts

• ISBN13: 9780972577922
• ISBN10: 0972577920
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr

Summary

Surveying the history of aesthetic expressions from the earliest Native American populations to the most significant artists of our own times, the Art of Tennessee exhibit, running from September 13, 2003, through January 18, 2004, at the First Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, includes approximately 250 of the most extraordinary examples of paintings, sculptures, furniture, quilts, pottery, silver, maps, and other forms of art created throughout Tennessee or that relate to Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 6
Contributors of Essays and Sidebars	p. 7
Contributors of Entries	p. 9
Foreword and Acknowledgments	p. 11
Introduction	p. 15
Prehistoric Native American Art in Tennessee	p. 19
Young Tennessee and the Spirit of America	p. 35
Tennessee Maps	p. 42
The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Tennessee	p. 51
Antebellum Furniture	p. 55
Sugar Chests	p. 80
William Winchester Jr., Cabinetmaker	p. 86
Richard "Dick" Poynor	p. 90
Silver Production and Importation in Tennessee	p. 92
Pottery	p. 110
Nineteenth-Century Quiltmaking in Tennessee	p. 126
Textile Art in Tennessee through the Early Twentieth Century	p. 132
Antebellum Painting	p. 141
Ralph E. W. Earl	p. 162
Tennesseans on the National Stage	p. 167
Decorative Arts at The Hermitage	p. 190
"Holding the Line": William Gilbert Gaul as a Military Artist	p. 194
Painting in Tennessee, 1865-1920	p. 199
Twentieth-Century Figurative and Narrative Art	p. 219
Celebrating the Human Spirit: Nashville Murals by Aaron Douglas, Ben Shahn, and Thomas Hart Benton	p. 238
Structures of Recollection: Tennessee Photography as Document and Art	p. 242
Tennessee Folk Art	p. 259
William Edmondson, Sculptor	p. 276
Modern Art for Modern Times	p. 285
Aaron Douglas' Building More Stately Mansions	p. 300
Contemporary Craft	p. 305
New Directions: Contemporary Art in Tennessee	p. 337
Suggested Reading	p. 370
Index of Artists	p. 373
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