Main entry:

Ross, Novelene.

Title & Author:

Toward an American identity : selections from the Wichita Art Museum collection of American art / Novelene Ross with an essay by David Cateforis ; catalog edited by David Cateforis ; entries contributed by Bryan J. Bach, [et al ...].

Publication:

Wichita, Kan. : Wichita Art Museum, ©1997.

Description:

272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Exhibition also held at Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, March 6-July 26, 1998, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, August 21-October 18, 1998, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa, November 13, 1998-January 10, 1999, and Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, January 29-March 28, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Inez S. Wolins -- Acknowledgements / Serena Rattazzi, Novelene Ross -- Toward an American identity: the formulation of the Wichita Art Museum collection of American art in an era of aesthetic nationalism / Novelene Ross -- "That our soil will produce the artist": American landscape painting and national identity, ca. 1890-1950 / David Cateforis -- "An art of the folk for the folk": images of the people in American painting from the Wichita Art Museum Collection, ca. 1890-1950 / Novelene Ross -- Catalogue -- Index.

ISBN:

0939324512 (pbk.)
9780939324514 (pbk.)

Subject:

Painting, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Peinture américaine 20e siècle Expositions.
Painting, American
Malerei
Ausstellung
Wichita (Kan., 1998)
USA

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Cateforis, David.
Wichita Art Museum.
Mississippi Museum of Art.

Selections from the Wichita Art Museum collection of American art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 179931
Call No.: ID ND210.W44; ID:98-B46
Status: Available