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Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections

George Gurney, Eleanor Jones Harvey, et al.

The American Art Forum, a small group of collectors from across the United States, was begun twenty years ago by Charles C. Eldredge while he was director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Now, as part of the Forum’s twentieth anniversary celebrations, the Smithsonian American Art Museum is proud to offer Variations on America, a volume of seventy-two treasured artworks collected by members of the Forum. Chief curator Eleanor Jones Harvey, deputy chief curator George Gurney, senior curators Virginia M. Mecklenburg and Joann Moser, former Luce Foundation Center curator George Speer, and curatorial assistant Elaine Yau present significant and lively contributions about these works.

Artworks include fine landscape masterpieces such as Sanford Robinson Gifford’s The Marshes of the Hudson, light-filled impressionist canvases, gritty Ashcan paintings, triumphant abstract expressionism, and resonant contemporary works by Andrew Wyeth and David Hockney.

 

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Product Details

Co-Publisher
Copublished with D. Giles Limited
Year Published
2007
Pages
192 pp.: ill. (87 color)
ISBN
  • Hardcover: 978-1-904832-42-3
Dimensions
10 3410 34 in.

Exhibitions

Oil on canvas of a mirrored imaged with three semi circles and two red vertical lines in the middle.
Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
April 12, 2007July 28, 2007
"Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections" celebrates the vision and passion of private collectors who are formally affiliated with the Smithsonian American Art Museum.