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Marks of Distinction Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, 1769-1969
Barbara J MacAdam, John Wilmerding et al
This impressive volume accompanies the centerpiece exhibition of a year-long celebration commemorating the museum’s twentieth anniversary and its rich permanent collection. Approximately one hundred seventy-five of the Hood Museum’s finest American watercolors and drawings dating from between 1769 and 1969 are beautifully illustrated, many published for the first time. Noteworthy works include Benjamin West’s elegant Archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation, 1784; from the 19th century, James McNeill Whistler’s lyrical Maud in Bed, 1884–86, and an unusually early watercolor by John Singer Sargent, Cathedral of Saint Gilles du Gard, 1878; and two very fine watercolors by Maurice Pendergast, Reading in the Garden, 1893–94, and The Harbor from City Point, 1895. The 20th–century collection boasts work by George Bellows, Joseph Stella and “Magic Realists” Paul Cadmus and Ilse Bischoff. Additionally, drawings by Edwin Dickinson, David Smith and Lee Bontecou, as well as Larry Rivers’ Double Money Drawing, 1964 are reproduced to complete the thorough presentation of this reputable and distinctive collection of American art. Barbara J. MacAdam is curator of American Art at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
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