Frames of reference : looking at American art, 1900-1950 : works from the Whitney Museum of American Art / Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg, editors ; with an essay by Kennedy Fraser and contributions by Robert Adams [and others].
Eminent contributors from the fields of art, literature, and contemporary culture work together to provide a wide-ranging introduction to American art as well as to the Whitney Museum's unparalleled collection. 105 color plates. 130 b & w illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Maxwell L. Anderson
- Introduction / Adam D. Weinberg
- The Whitney : biography of an institution
- Love and struggle : Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney / Kennedy Fraser.
- Visual contexts for American art. John Sloan, The picnic grounds / Kate Rubin
- Gaston Lachaise, Standing woman / Adam D. Weinberg
- Max Weber, Chinese restaurant / Kate Rubin
- Charles Burchfield, Noontide in late May / Kate Rubin
- Marsden Hartley, Landscape, New Mexico / Angela Kramer Murphy
- John Storrs, Forms in space 1 / Beth Benn
- Arthur Dove, The critic / Beth Venn
- Charles Sheeler, Interior / Kate Rubin
- Arshile Gorky, The artist and his mother / Adam D. Weinberg
- Gerald Murphy, Cocktail / Adam D. Weinberg
- Elsie Driggs, Pittsburgh / Kate Rubin
- Georgia O'Keeffe, The white calico flower / Angela Kramer Murphy
- Charles Sheeler, River rouge plant / Angela Kramer Murphy
- Grant Wood, Study for breaking the prairie / Kathryn Potts
- Raphael Soyer, Office Girls / Kathryn Potts
- Reginald Marsh, Twenty cent movie / Adam D. Weinberg
- Burgoyne Diller, First theme / Naomi Urabe
- Man Ray, La fortune / Beth Venn
- Philip Evergood, Lily and the sparrows / Angela Kramer Murphy
- Theodore Roszak, Bi-polar in red / Beth Venn
- Andrew Wyeth, Winter fields / Adam D. Weinberg
- Richard Pousette-Dart, Within the room / Adam D. Weinberg
- Jacob Lawrence, War series: Another patrol / Beth Venn
- Thomas Hart Benton, Poker night / Kathryn Potts
- Edward Hopper, Seven A.M. / Angela Kramer Murphy
- Stuart Davis, Owh! In San Paõ / Angela Kramer Murphy.
- American icons interpreted. Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge / Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier ; Henry Petroski ; John Yau
- William J. Glackens, Hammerstein's roof garden / Kathryn Harrison ; Lewis Erenberg ; Brendan Gill
- Ben Shahn, The passion of Sacco and Vanzetti / Alfred Kazin ; Alan M. Dershowitz ; Frances K. Pohl
- George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo / Elliott J. Gorn ; George Plimpton ; Marianne Doezema
- Charles Demuth, My Egypt / Karal Ann Marling ; Lisa Mahar ; Maurice Berger
- Alexander Calder, Calder's circus / Howard Gardner ; Robert Wilson ; Neil Harris
- Edward Hopper, Early Sunday morning / John Updike ; Robert Adams ; Brian O'Doherty
- Georgia O'Keeffe, Summer days / Kathleen Norris ; Anne M. Wagner ; Sarah Whitaker Peters
- Elie Nadelman, Tango / Richard Martin ; Martin Puryear ; Henry Glassie
- Marsden Hartley, Painting, number 5 / Peter Gay ; Charles Eldredge ; Patricia McDonnell.
- Acknowledgements / Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg.