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American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection
American Dreams Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection Author:David Park Cury, Elizabeth L. O'Leary, Susan Jensen Rawles The Warner Collection -- one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of American art still in private hands -- addresses themes central to America's past and present. The works selected for this book range from and 18th-century portrait of George Washington to a 1995 image of Thomas Jefferson, from landscapes of the Hudso... more »n River School to views of the American West, and from American Impressionism to 20th-century Realism. All touch upon dreams that have shaped the American experience.
Following a brief introduction to Jack Warner and the development of his collection, this book presents commentaries that illuminate the work of such artists as Thomas Cole, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Thirty color plates are paired with black-and-white images of additional selections from the Warner Collection and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. American artists may be noted for their unaffected "plain speaking," but their images take us far beyond what they actually saw. Since the earliest days of the new republic, our artists have created complex works with layered meanings, some obvious, others hidden.« less