American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865

by Edited by Thayer Tolles; Catalogue by Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler, and Thayer Tolles; Photographs by Jerry L. Thompson

• ISBN13: 9780300085174
• ISBN10: 0300085176
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-09-10
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Summary

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a distinguished and comprehensive collection of late nineteenth-century American sculpture, particularly strong in neoclassical and Beaux Arts works and acclaimed for its preeminent group of lifesize statues in marble and bronze. This is the first volume of a two-volume set that will record the museum's collection.

The museum's holdings -- and the book -- accurately document the history of American sculpture and its development as a profession. They range from work by artists who lived in Italy and carved marble and those who studied in Paris and cast in bronze to those who worked only in the United States and were pioneers in the techniques of their art. The artworks represent high points in the careers of such renowned sculptors as Hiram Powers, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Gaston Lachaise, and Paul Manship. Included are premier examples of neoclassical ideal nudes, expressive genre statuettes, naturalistic representations of Native American subjects, studies for and reductions after monumental sculpture, dramatic depictions of

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Philippe de Montebello
Preface	viii
John K. Howat
Acknowledgments	ix
A History of the Metropolitan Museum's American Sculpture Collection	xiii
Thayer Tolles
Notes to the Reader	xxvii
CATALOGUE
Volume I, entries 1--198	1	(444)
Selected Bibliography	445	(3)
Concordance of Accession and Catalogue Numbers	448	(1)
Index of Artists and Titles	449