American Stories
dal 27/2/2010 al 22/5/2010
Segnalato da
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Thomas Eakins
Winslow Homer
John Singleton Copley
George Caleb Bingham
John Singer Sargent
Mary Cassatt
Bruce Robertson
H. Barbara Weinberg
Alice Pratt Brown
Carrie Rebora Barratt
27/2/2010
American Stories
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles
Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915. From the colonial period to the present, Americans have been inventing characters and plots, settings and situations to give meaning to our everyday lives. The exhibition includes 75 paintings, from before the Revolution to the start of World War I, that tell these stories in scenes of family life and courting, work and leisure, comic mishaps and disasters. These daily experiences were all subject to the artist's searching and revealing eye and many of the works on view are famous images known to almost every American. Major artists such as Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, John Singleton Copley and George Caleb Bingham, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt, are included in this important survey; organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and curated by Bruce Robertson in collaboration with H. Barbara Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown, and Carrie Rebora Barratt.