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9780300081992

Painting the Town : Cityscapes of New York, Paintings from the Museum of the City of New York

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300081992

  • ISBN10:

    0300081995

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2000-04-10
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $55.00

Summary

This beautiful book gathers nearly 160 paintings from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, displaying the City's harbors, skylines, neighborhoods, and street scenes from post-Revolutionary years to the present day. Each painting is accompanied by a fascinating commentary on an aspect of the city's history.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Robert R. Macdonald
Painting the Town
1(16)
Collecting Cityscapes and Urban Character at the Museum of the City of New York
Jan Seidler Ramirez
The Painter and the City
17(20)
The Evolution of the New York Subject
William R. Taylor
Art Scenes and the Urban Scene in New York City
37(32)
Michcle H. Bogart
Notes to Essays
59(10)
Catalogue
69(264)
Jan Seidler Ramirez
Barbara Ball Buff
Notes to Catalogue 333(34)
Acknowledgments 367(2)
Index to Plates 369

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