Smith College Museum of Art

by Smith College Museum of Art; Leshko, Jaroslaw; Davis, John

• ISBN13: 9781555951948
• ISBN10: 1555951945
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr

Summary

With the modern era the College's greatest area of strength, this lavish volume brings together 100 masterpieces, 50 European and 50 American - all in colour, all illuminated by individual essays.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(7)
Suzannah J. Fabing
European Painting and Sculpture
Torso, 1953	20	(2)
Hans (Jean) Arp
Theseus Slaying the Centaur Bienor, modeled 1849-50	22	(2)
Antoine-Louis Barye
Landscape with Haystack, Asheham, 1912	24	(2)
Vanessa Bell
A Young Painter and His Model, c. 1788-92	26	(2)
Louis-Leopold Boilly
Landscape in Normandy (formerly Landscape in the Midi), 1920 (completed later)	28	(2)
Pierre Bonnard
Bust of a Chinese Man (Le Chinois), modeled 1868; cast c. 1872-74	30	(2)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
A Turn in the Road at La Roche-Guyon (La Route tournante a La Roche-Guyon), c. 1885	32	(2)
Paul Cezanne
The Fair Maid of Gascony (La Blonde Gasconne), c. 1850	34	(2)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Dubuisson's Grove at Brunoy, 1868	36	(2)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The Preparation of the Dead Girl (La Toilette de la morte), c. 1850-55	38	(2)
Gustave Courbet
Monsieur Nodler the Elder at Trouville, 1865	40	(2)
Gustave Courbet
Rene de Gas (1845-1926), 1855	42	(2)
Edgar Degas
The Daughter of Jephthah, 1859-60	44	(2)
Edgar Degas
Dancer on the Stage, c. 1877-80	46	(2)
Edgar Degas
Dancer Moving Forward, Arms Raised, Right Leg Forward, modeled 1882-95 (cast posthumously)	48	(2)
Edgar Degas
Forest Pool, Barbizon, 1862	50	(2)
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Pena
Mr. Becker, 1886	52	(2)
Henri Fantin-Latour
Unknown French Artist, Portrait of a Youth, possibly c. 1795	54	(2)
The Market Gardens of Vaugirard, 1879	56	(4)
Paul Gauguin
Madame Benoit-Francois Trioson (?), 1804	60	(2)
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson
Fruit Dish, Glass, and Newspaper, 1916	62	(2)
Juan Gris
Clytemnestra Hesitating before Stabbing the Sleeping Agamemnon, c. 1817	64	(2)
Pierre-Narcisse Guerin
Bust of the Abbe Barthelemy (1716-1795), 1793/94-before 1802	66	(2)
Jean-Antoine Houdon
The Death of Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1851	68	(2)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Autumn Impression, 1908	70	(2)
Wassily Kandinsky
Dodo and Her Brother, 1908/20	72	(2)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Mechanical Element I, 1924	74	(2)
Fernand Leger
Torso of the Pensive Woman, 1913-14	76	(2)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Marguerite de Conflans, 1873	78	(2)
Edouard Manet
Farm at Gruchy, 1854	80	(2)
Jean-Francois Millet
The Seine at Bougival, Evening, 1869	82	(2)
Claude Monet
Field of Poppies, 1890	84	(2)
Claude Monet
Cathedral at Rouen (La Cour d'Albane), 1892-94	86	(2)
Claude Monet
Working Model for Time-Life Screen, 1952-53	88	(2)
Henry Moore
The Mozart Sonata, 1894	90	(2)
Berthe Morisot
Still Life (West Penwith), 1949	92	(2)
Ben Nicholson
Figures by the Sea (Les Miserables au bord de la mer), 1903	94	(2)
Pablo Picasso
Table, Guitar, and Bottle (La Table), 1919	96	(2)
Pablo Picasso
Seated Nude, 1922	98	(2)
Pablo Picasso
The Poor Fisherman, c. 1879-81	100	(2)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
With Clossed Eyes (Les Yeux Clos), c. 1895-1905	102	(4)
Odilon Redon
Rapha Maitre (Madame Edmond Maitre), 1870-71	106	(2)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Mrs. Nesbitt as Circe, 1781	108	(2)
Joshua Reynolds
Pyramids, c. 1760	110	(2)
Hubert Robert
Man with the Broken Nose, modeled 1863-64; this cast c. 1900	112	(2)
Auguste Rodin
The Walking Man, modeled 1877-78; this cast 1965	114	(2)
Auguste Rodin
The Bridge at Moret, c. 1828-29	116	(2)
Theodore Rousseau
Woman with a Monkey (study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte), 1884	118	(2)
Georges Seurat
The Suitor, 1893	120	(4)
Edouard Vuillard
Joseph Wright of Derby, A Cavern, Evening, 1774	124	(4)
American Painting and Sculpture
Surf Fisherman, 1950	128	(2)
Milton Avery
Echo Lake, Franconia Mountains, New Hamshire, 1861	130	(2)
Albert Bierstadt
Andrew Faneuil Phillips, 1755; Ann Phillips, 1755	132	(2)
Joseph Balckburn
Untitled, 1959	134	(2)
Lee Bontecou
Mobile, 1934	136	(2)
Alexander Calder
Woman in Black, c. 1890	138	(2)
William Merritt Chase
Compositional study for The Voyage of Life: Manhood, c. 1840	140	(2)
Thomas Cole
The Honorable John Erving, c. 1772	142	(2)
John Singleton Copley
Lady with Cello, before 1920	144	(2)
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Woodland Interior, c. 1854	146	(2)
Asher Brown Durand
In Grandmother's Time, 1876	148	(2)
Thomas Eakins
Edith Mahon, 1904	150	(2)
Thomas Eakins
Mourning Picture, 1890	152	(4)
Edwin Romanzo Elmer
A Lady of Baptist Corner, Ashfield, Massachusetts, 1892	156	(2)
Edwin Romanzo Elmer
View of Northampton from the Dome of the Hospital, 1865	158	(2)
Thomas Charles Farrer
Gables I, Luneburg, 1925	160	(2)
Lyonel Feininger
Bethiah Smith Bassett, c. 1836	162	(2)
Erastus Salisbury Field
The May Queen, 1875	164	(2)
Daniel Chester French
An Old Orchard Near the Sea, Massachusetts, 1877	166	(2)
Robert Swain Gifford
Sea Window---Tinker Mackerel, 1942	168	(2)
Marsden Hartley
Natural Arch, Capri, c. 1855-76	170	(2)
William Stanley Haseltine
Cab Stand at Night, Madison Square, 1891	172	(2)
Childe Hassam
Union Square in Spring, 1896	174	(2)
Childe Hassam
White Island Light, Isles of Shoals, at Sundown, 1899	176	(2)
Childe Hassam
New Jersey Meadows, c. 1871-75	178	(2)
Martin Johnson Heade
Shipyard at Gloucester, 1871	180	(2)
Winslow Homer
Pretty Penny, 1939	182	(2)
Edward Hopper
Landscape, 1877	184	(4)
George Inness
Dublin Pond, 1903	188	(2)
Rockwell Kent
Rose, Purple, and Black, 1958	190	(2)
Franz Kline
Centaur and Dryad, 1913, cast 1915	192	(2)
Paul Manship
Le Bal Bullier, c. 1900-1901	194	(2)
Alfred Henry Maurer
Willows in March, 1911	196	(2)
Willard Leroy Metcalf
Untitled, c. 1960	198	(2)
Joan Mitchell
La Danse, 1952	200	(4)
Robert Motherwell
Resting Stag, c. 1915	204	(2)
Elie Nadelman
Moving-Static-Moving, 1955	206	(2)
Louise Nevelson
Grey Tree, Fall, 1948	208	(2)
Georgia O'Keeffe
A Cup of Tea, 1883	210	(2)
Charles Sprague Pearce
Discarded Treasures, c. 1904	212	(2)
John Frederick Peto
Perrette, c. 1885-90	214	(2)
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Diana of the Tower, 1899	216	(2)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
My Dining Room, c. 1883-86	218	(2)
John Singer Sargent
Rolling Power, 1939	220	(2)
Charles Sheeler
Reading the Legend, 1852	222	(2)
Lilly Martin Spencer
Henry McBride, Art Critic, 1922	224	(2)
Florine Stettheimer
Auto Tower, Industrial Forms, c. 1922	226	(2)
John Storrs
Henrietta Elizabeth Frederica Vane, 1783	228	(2)
Gilbert Stuart
The First Leaves, 1889	230	(4)
Dwight Tryon
Mrs. Lewis Jarvis, 1879	234	(2)
James McNeil Whistler
Index	236