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Chronology of Articles and Essays
August, 2001
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(above: Augustus Dunbier, Toward Taxco, 1949, oil on canvas, 24 x 28 inches. Private collection.)
Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
California Watercolor Painters in Context, essay by Donelson Hoopes (8/30/01)
American Pastorale: Drawings by John F. Kensett (8/29/01)
Ansel Adams at 100, essay excerpt by John Szarkowski (8/29/01)
An Unstill Life: S.C. Yuan / Paintings, essay by Kathleen Moodie (8/28/01)
Introduction to Art at Scripps: The Early Years, essay by Mary MacNaughton (8/28/01)
Realism in the Abstract Age, essay by Jason Edward Kaufman (8/27/01)
How-To: The Paintings of Deborah Oropallo (8/27/01)
Acquisition of an Archive: The Graphic Works of Ed Ruscha (8/25/01)
Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell (8/24/01)
Indianapolis Museum of Art Appoints Anthony G. Hirschel as New Director (8/24/01)
Emilio Caballero: Artista y Maestro en El Llano, article by Michael Grauer (8/23/01)
American Indian Portraits: Elbridge Ayer Burbank in the West (1897-1910) (8/23/01)
Prints of American Life: WPA Works on Paper from the Webster Collection (8/23/01)
Regionalism: The California View, essay by Susan M. Anderson (8/21/01)
Treasures from the Amistad Collection (8/20/01)
American Impressionism Goes West, essay by Charles C. Eldredge, PhD (8/17/01)
Harmonies and Contrasts: The Art of Marguerite and William Zorach (8/16/01)
Dahlov Ipcar: Seven Decades of Creativity (8/16/01)
Dr. John Schloder Appointed Director of St. Petersburg's Museum of Fine Arts (8/16/01)
Continuity and Change: Southern California's Evolving Landscape, essay by Sarah Vure (8/15/01)
Eliseo Rodriguez: El Sexto Pintor, article by Carmella Padilla (8/15/01)
Peter Zokosky: The Nature of Being, essay by Gordon Fuglie (8/14/01)
Art Is Long, Décor Short (Way Out West), essay by Roger Dunbier (8/13/01)
Will Barnet and Native American Art, essay by Twig Johnson (8/9/01)
The Metamorphosis of California Landscape Art, essay by Rexford E. Brandt (8/9/01)
Capitol Portraits; selected wall text, including biographies of artists in the exhibition (8/8/01)
Urban Invasion: Chester Arnold and James Doolin (8/8/01)
"Chester Arnold: Realizing Meaning," essay By Karen Kienzle (8/8/01)
"James Doolin's Illusionistic Vision," an essay By Patricia Hickson (8/8/01)
American Impressionism from the El Paso Museum of Art (8/3/01)
Pennsylvania Painters and the Roots of Realism, essay by Judith Hansen O'Toole (8/2/01)
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Collections of Historic American Art - notable private collections
Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History - a catalogue of articles and essays that describe the evolution of American art from the inception of the United States to WWII.
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