A Brush With History - Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery

by National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution); Miles, Ellen Gross; Carr, Carolyn Kinder; Christman, Margaret C. S.

• ISBN13: 9781584650805
• ISBN10: 158465080X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England

Summary

Portraiture is a unique genre that is common ground both for American art history and for history told through the biographies of the people who shaped it. Offering 78 wide-ranging examples from the incomparable National Portrait Gallery's collection, A Brush with History showcases the American portrait tradition from the country's beginnings to the present. The book contains essays by the museum's Deputy Director Carolyn Kinder Carr and by Curator of Painting and Sculpture Ellen G. Miles. The full-page color portraits display such works as John Singleton Copley's Self-Portrait, Henry Inman's Sequoyah, Edgar Degas's Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hart Benton's Self-Portrait with Rita. This handsomely designed volume also includes a foreword by Alan Fern, Director Emeritus of the National Portrait Gallery, and an essay by the Gallery's Research Historian Margaret Christman on the history of the National Portrait Gallery.

Table of Contents

Foreword	8	(2)
Marc Pachter
Preface	10	(2)
The National Portrait Gallery	12	(10)
Margaret C. S. Christman
Fame and the Public Self in American Portraiture, 1725--1865	22	(16)
Ellen G. Miles
Painters, Patrons, and the Changing Face of American Portraiture, 1865--1999	38	(178)
Carolyn Kinder Carr
CATALOGUE
George Berkeley	60	(2)
Andrew Oliver	62	(2)
Anne Green	64	(2)
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	66	(2)
John Singleton Copley	68	(2)
John Jay	70	(2)
Benjamin Franklin	72	(2)
Charles Willson Peale	74	(2)
Rubens Peale	76	(2)
William Wirt	78	(2)
Elizabeth Wirt	80	(2)
Juliana Westray Wood	82	(2)
Samuel F. B. Morse	84	(2)
Rufus King	86	(2)
Loammi Baldwin	88	(2)
Samuel Ringgold	90	(2)
Thomas Paul	92	(2)
Sequoyah	94	(2)
William Lloyd Garrison	96	(2)
Davy Crockett	98	(2)
Henry Clay	100	(2)
Frederick Douglass	102	(2)
John C. Calhoun	104	(2)
Dolley Madison	106	(2)
George Catlin	108	(2)
Harriet Beecher Stowe	110	(2)
Winfield Scott	112	(2)
Bayard Taylor	114	(2)
Gulian Verplanck	116	(2)
William James	118	(2)
Nathaniel Hawthorne	120	(2)
Men of Progress	122	(2)
Orestes Brownson	124	(2)
William T. Sherman	126	(2)
Edith Wharton	128	(2)
James MeNeill Whistler	130	(2)
Philip H. Sheridan	132	(2)
Francis Millet	134	(2)
Mary Cassatt	136	(2)
Bret Harte	138	(2)
Thomas B. Clarke	140	(2)
H. H. Richardson	142	(2)
Juliette Grodon Low	144	(2)
Talcott Williams	146	(2)
Henry Cabot Lodge	148	(2)
Paul Wayland Bartlett	150	(2)
Charles Yerkes	152	(2)
Richard Watson Gilder	154	(2)
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain	156	(2)
Henry James	158	(2)
Lee Simonson	160	(2)
Nelson Aldrich	162	(2)
Willard Huntington Wright S. S. Van Dine	164	(2)
Francis P. Garvan	166	(2)
Thomas Hart Benton with his wife, Rita	168	(2)
Marianne Moore and her mother	170	(2)
Edward Weston	172	(2)
Tallulah Bankhead	174	(2)
George Gershwin	176	(2)
Martha Graham	178	(2)
George Washington Carver	180	(2)
George S. Patton	182	(2)
Elaine de Kooning	184	(2)
Lena Horne	186	(2)
Harold Rosenberg	188	(2)
Elsa Maxwell	190	(2)
Carl Sandburg	192	(2)
T. S. Eliot	194	(2)
Alice Roosevelt Longworth	196	(2)
Lincoln Kirstein	198	(2)
Virgil Thomson	200	(2)
Eliot Porter	202	(2)
Alice Neel	204	(2)
John Updike	206	(2)
Michael Jackson	208	(2)
M. E. K. Fisher	210	(6)
Index of Artists	216