John Singleton Copley In America
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spine; green and color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering; xv, 364 pp. 117 color, 211 bw plates. VG/VG (minamal shelf wear, all pages clear and intact). Item #6569
ISBN: 9780870997440
Includes essays by Carrie Rebora (Copley and Art History: The Study of America's First Old Master), Paul Saiti (Accounting For Copley + Character And Class), Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. (An American Despite Himself), Aileen Ribeiro ("The Whole Art of Dress": Costume in The Art of John Singleton Coplley), Erica E. Hirshler (Copley In Miniature), Marjorie Shelley (Painting In Crayon: The Pastels of John Singleton Copley), Morrison H. Heckscher (Copley's Picture Frames). Catalogue lists 81 works, followed by a chronology. Bibliography, Index. Lovely color plates, exhaustive research, interesting reading. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Boston from June 7 to Aug. 27, 1995. It then went on to three additional locations.
OCLC: 32085369
Price: $20.00