American 20-21st Century Representational Art

Resource Library articles and essays published July through December, 2004

 

(above: Robert Walter Weir, The Greenwich Boat Club, 1833, oil on canvas, 21.2 x 30.5 inches, Princeton University Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "American 20th-21st Century Multi-Subject Representational Art." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the date of publication in Resource Library.

Materials referenced below could not be readily placed in other Topics in American Art. New topics will be created from these disparate materials when there is enough content aggregated to create them.

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Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

The Spirit of the Modern: Drawings and Graphics by Maltby Sykes; Foreword to Maltby Sykes catalogue, by William Underwood Eiland, Director; Friendship's Garland: Remembering Maltby Sykes, "A Witness of His Time", essay by Taylor Littleton (12/20/04)

R. H. Ives Gammell: The Hound of Heaven; essay by Elizabeth Ives Hunter (12/704)

An Act of Memory; essay by Katherine French (11/30/04)

Edmund Lewandowski Murals Uncovered at the Flint Institute of Arts (11/30/04)

 

In The American Grain: The Stieglitz Circle At The Phillips Collection (11/19/04)

Transforming the Page: Line, Washes, and Smudges (9/29/04)

Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930-1950, from the Schoen Collection (9/27/04)

A Matter of Style: The Influence of French Art on the Old Lyme Art Colony (9/27/04)

Seeing Red: Rockwell Kent and the Farnsworth Art Museum; article by Victoria K. Woodhull (9/3/04)

 

In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe, and Stieglitz (9/3/04)

Allan Freelon: Pioneer African-American Impressionist (9/2/04)

Places Near and Far: Award Winning Original Art from Favorite Children's Books (9/2/04)

Louise Nevelson: Selections from the Farnsworth Art Museum (8/30/04)

Art in America: 1825-1975; essay by Thomas Davies (8/20/04)

 

An American Art Collection in Hong Kong; article by Thomas Davies (8/20/04)

Sharing Your Paintings -- or --"It's Better Than Selling Hot Dogs"; article by Thomas Davies (8/19/04)

The Art of Janet Fish and Eliot O'Hara Watercolors (8/16/04)

Revelations and Reflections of Self-Taught Artists (7/28/04)

Jan Matulka - The Global Modernist; with Catalogue Introduction by Patterson Sims (7/19/04)

 

What's In A Book: A Book Arts Exhibition; "What's in a Book," essay by Pamela Hart Rago (7/13/04)

Red, Hot & Blue: A Salute to American Musicals (7/12/04)

Roy Lichtenstein: All About Art (7/7/04)

Warhol & Lichtenstein (7/1/04)

 

(above: William Wendt, Lupine Patch, 1921, Bonhams. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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