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- catalog abstract ""Portraiture is a unique genre that is common ground both for American art history and for history told through the biographies of the people who shaped it. Offering 78 wide-ranging examples from the incomparable National Portrait Gallery's collection, A Brush with History showcases the American portrait tradition from the country's beginnings to the present. The book contains essays by the museum's Deputy Director Carolyn Kinder Carr and by Curator of Painting and Sculpture Ellen G. Miles. The full-page color portraits display such works as John Singleton Copley's Self-Portrait, Henry Inman's Sequoyah, Edgar Degas's Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hart Benton's Self-Portrait with Rita. This handsomely designed volume also includes a foreword by Alan Fern, Director Emeritus of the National Portrait Gallery, and an essay by the Gallery's Research Historian Margaret Christman on the history of the National Portrait Gallery."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11986231.
- catalog contributor b11986232.
- catalog contributor b11986233.
- catalog contributor b11986234.
- catalog contributor b11986235.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Portraiture is a unique genre that is common ground both for American art history and for history told through the biographies of the people who shaped it. Offering 78 wide-ranging examples from the incomparable National Portrait Gallery's collection, A Brush with History showcases the American portrait tradition from the country's beginnings to the present. The book contains essays by the museum's Deputy Director Carolyn Kinder Carr and by Curator of Painting and Sculpture Ellen G. Miles. The full-page color portraits display such works as John Singleton Copley's Self-Portrait, Henry Inman's Sequoyah, Edgar Degas's Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hart Benton's Self-Portrait with Rita. This handsomely designed volume also includes a foreword by Alan Fern, Director Emeritus of the National Portrait Gallery, and an essay by the Gallery's Research Historian Margaret Christman on the history of the National Portrait Gallery."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-215) and index.".
- catalog extent "216 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Brush with history.".
- catalog identifier "1584650796 (hc)".
- catalog identifier "158465080X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Brush with history.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; [Hanover, N.H.] : Distributed by the University Press of New England,".
- catalog relation "Brush with history.".
- catalog spatial "Washington (D.C.)".
- catalog subject "757/.0973/074753 21".
- catalog subject "ND1311 .N35 2000".
- catalog subject "National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Portrait painting Washington (D.C.) Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Portrait painting Washington (D.C.) Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Portrait painting, American Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Portrait painting, American Exhibitions.".
- catalog title "A brush with history : paintings from the National Portrait Gallery / Carolyn Kinder Carr and Ellen G. Miles ; foreword by Marc Pachter ; with an essay by Margaret C.S. Christman.".
- catalog type "Catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "text".