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New & Notable Additions to the AA/PG Library

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The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library (AAPG) would like to share some of its recent additions to its collections:

Mercurio

Roy Lichtenstein : Meditations on Art. Gianni Mercurio. Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, c2010.

Contents: Modern postmodern: Roy Lichtenstein / Gianni Mercurio — Lichtenstein: grids silence and art after Manet / Demetrio Paparoni — Connecting the dots / Robert Pincus-Witten — Making an original from a copy / Annabelle Ténèze — Five studios and some musical notes / Frederic Tuten — Meditations on art / interviews selected by Ida Parlavecchio. Modernism and the vernacular ; Beyond the modern ; Beyond Picasso ; Movement and time ; Going abstract ; Mechanization takes command ; Still life ; Frozen brushstroke ; After brushstrokes ; The rational subconscious ; Expressionist codes ; Native pop ; Landscape as iconography — Sources and art references / iconographic research by Elena Paloscia and Evan Reehl Ryer — Roy Lichtenstein: a chronology in brief / Clare Bell.

Subject: Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997 — Exhibitions. N40.1.L69 T7 2010.

Kindersley

The Civil War : A Visual History. Produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution. New York : DK Publishing, c2011.

Contents: An Imperfect Union 1815-1860 – Secession Triggers War 1861 – Clash of Armies 1862 – The Union Tightens Its Grip 1863 – Grant, Sherman, and Total War 1864 – Collapse of the Confederacy 1865 – Legacies of the War 1865-1877.

Subject: United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Pictorial works; United States — History — 1815-1861 — Pictorial works; Confederate States of America — History — Pictorial works; Confederate States of America — History, Military — Pictorial works. E468.7 .C585 2011.

Steichen

Steichen in Color : Portraits, Fashion & Experiments. Edward Steichen. New York : Sterling Innovation, c2010.

Contents: Photography

Subject: Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973; International Museum of Photography and Film – Collections; Photography, Artistic; Portrait photography; Fashion photography; Color photography; Photographers — United States — Biography. TR647.S812 S7 2010.

Nollen

Paul Robeson : Film Pioneer. Scott Allen Nollen. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2010.

Contents: Great things to come — Black preacher's ambition : Body and soul (1925) — The growth of an idea : Borderline (1930) — Bloomin' majesty : The emperor Jones (1933) — Imperial palaver : Sanders of the river (1935) — Whale on the Mississippi : Show boat (1936) — Singing king of Casanga : The song of freedom (1936) — Down in the ditch : Big fella (1937) — Enough here for all : King Solomon's mines (1937) — Greener pastures : Jericho (1937) — A people's film : The proud valley (1940) — We were brothers : Native land (1942) — Shantytown shake-up : Tales of Manhattan (1942) — Deep river.

Subject: Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976; African Americans – Biography; African American actors – Biography; African American singers – Biography; Political activists — United States — Biography. CT275.R645 N6 2010.

Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg. Edited by Ealan Wingate and Emily Florido. New York, NY : Gagosian Gallery ; Munich, Germany : Prestel, c2010.

Contents: Full circle / James Lawrence — Plates. — Rauschenberg's epic vision / John Richardson — Chronology 1925-2008 / Susan Davidson and Joan Young — List of works.

Subject: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008 – Exhibitions; Art, American — 20th century — Exhibitions. N40.1.R24 G34 2010

Barker

Abigail and John Adams : The Americanization of Sensibility. G. J. Barker-Benfield. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Contents: Origins, definitions, and social circumstances — The metropolitan sources of the Adamses' views of sensibility — The meanings of sensibility — The theory of gendered sensibility — Social circles and the reformation of female manners — Young American women enter the world — Particular applications — A woman's struggle over sensibility — Sensibility and reform — Abigail's perspective, public versus private — John Adams and the reformation of male manners — The pleasures and pains of public life — Private perpetuation — Raising children with sensibility — A reformed rake? — The question answered — Conclusion — The Americanization of sensibility.

Subject: Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Sentimentalism; United States — Social life and customs — To 1775; United States — Social life and customs — 1775-1783;

United States — Social life and customs — 1783-1865. CT275.A21 B3 2010.

—Doug Litts

New & Notable Additions to the AA/PG Library

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The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library (AAPG) would like to share some of its recent additions to its collections:

Webb

The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs. Alex Webb. New York, N.Y. : Aperture, c2011

Contents: Photography

Subject: Webb, Alex, 1952-; Photography, Artistic. TR647.W365 S8 2011.

Unger

Lion of Liberty : Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation. Harlow Giles Unger. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2010.

Contents: Tongue-tied– — Tongue untied — The flame is spread — We are slaves! — To recover our just rights — We must fight! — "Give me liberty– " — "Don't tread on me" — Hastening to ruin — Obliged to fly — A Belgian hare — Seeds of discontent — On the wings of the tempest — A bane of sedition — Beef! beef! beef! — The sun has set in all its glory — Appendix A. The speech — Appendix B. Henry on slavery — Appendix C. Henry's heirs.

Subject: Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799; United States. Continental Congress – Biography; Governors — Virginia – Biography; Legislators — United States – Biography; Virginia — History — Revolution, 1775-1783; United States — Politics and government — 1775-1783; United States — Politics and government — 1783-1789. CT275.H525 U5 2010.

Allen

Artists' magazines : an alternative space for art. Gwen Allen. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

Contents: This is not to be looked at : Artforum in the 1960s and 1970s — The magazine as a medium : Aspen, 1965-1971 — Art on and off the page : 0 to 9, 1967-69 — An artists' magazine : Avalanche, 1970-76 — The magazine as an alternative space : Art-rite, 1973-1978 — The magazine as mirror : File, 1972-1989 — Real life, 1979-1994 — Epilogue : International activity : Interfunktionen, 1968-1975.

Subject: Art, Modern — 20th century – Periodicals; Art, Modern — 20th century – Historiography. N6490 .A58 2011.

Tracy

John Huston : Essays on a Restless Director. Edited by Tony Tracy and Roddy Flynn. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.

Contents: "Let's just see if it matters": an interview with Anjelica Huston / Tony Tracy — Strange but close partners: Huston, romantic comedy and The African queen / Pablo Echart — The ideological adventure of The man who would be king / Julie F. Codell — The way we were and White hunter, black heart: Huston in fiction and reel life / Patrick McGilligan — Huston's Mexico / Richard Vela — The discreet charm of Huston and Buñuel: notes on a cinematic odd couple / Neil Sinyard — Huston and the American South: The night of the iguana and Wise blood / Gary D. Rhodes — Re-visioning the Western: landscape and gender in The misfits / Georgiana Banita — Ethical commitment and political dissidence: Huston, HUAC, Hollywood and Key Largo / Reynold Humphries — King adapter: Huston's famous and infamous adaptations of literary classics / Page Laws — The melodramatic conscience of In this our life / Victoria Amador — The Irish accent of The dead / Michael Patrick Gillespie — A walk with love and death: from the jacquerie of 1358 to the turbulence of 1968 / Peter G. Christensen — The Western, The Westerner, The Westerness: William Wyler, Menippean Satire and John Huston's The life and times of Judge Roy Bean / Lesley Brill — John Huston and an Irish film industry / Roddy Flynn and Diog O'Connell — Recollections of Huston: a conversation with Wieland Schultz-Keil / Tony Tracy.

Subject: Huston, John, 1906-1987 — Criticism and interpretation. CT275.H965 J6 2010.

Manoguerra

One Hundred American Paintings. Paul Manoguerra ; with entries by Janice Simon, Lynn Boland, and William U. Eiland. Athens, Ga. : Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, c2011.

Contents: Art for everyone : the legacy of Alfred Heber Holbrook and the American painting collection / Paul Manoguerra — Catalogue / entries by Paul Manoguerra, Janice Simon, Lynn Boland, and William U. Eiland.

Subject: Holbrook, Alfred Heber, 1874-1974; Georgia Museum of Art – Catalogs; Painting, American – Catalogs; Painting — Georgia — Athens — Catalogs. ND205 .G46 2011.

Culkin

Harriet Hosmer : A Cultural Biography. Kate Culkin. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010.

Contents: Introduction: A Woman of Her Time – “She Will Do Much for the Cause of Womanhood” – “The Conception of the Stature is Masterly” – “Her Whoe Soul Was Filled with Zenobia” – “It Will Be a Manly Work” – “Female Sculptors Have Ceasted to Be a Novelty” – “Something Has Come into Our Love” – “The Isabella Road Has Been the Longest” – “One of the ‘Old Guard’ of Feminine Progress.

Subject: Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908; Sculptors — United States – Biography; Women sculptors — United States – Biography; Expatriate sculptors — Italy — Rome – Biography; Art and society — United States — History — 19th century. N40.1.H823 C8 2010. 

—Doug Litts

Harriet Hosmer : a cultural biography / / Kate Culkin.

 

New & Notable Additions to the AAPG Library

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The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library (AAPG) would like to share some of its recent additions to its collections:

Powerup Power Up: Female Pop Art. Angela Stief. Wien : Kunsthalle ; Cologne : DuMont Buchverlag, c2010.
Contents: Female pop art- an introduction/Gerald Matt – Power up – back to the future/ Angela Steif – Other(s’) pop: the return of the repressed of two discourses / Kalliopi Minioudaki – Anke Kempkes on Evelyne Axell – Martin Walker on Niki de Saint Phalle – Belinda Grace Gardner on Christa Dichgans – Sid Sachs on Rosalyn Drexler – Aaron Rose on Sister Corita – Thomas Miessgang on Kiki Kogelnik – Mark Rappolt on Jann Hanworth – Thomas Miesggag on Dorothy Iannonne – Belinda Grace Gardner on Marisol – Appendix.

Subject: Axell, Evelyne, 1935-1972 – Exhibitions –Corita, 1918 – 1986 –Exhibitions –Dichgans, Christa, 1940 –Exhibitions — Drexler, Rosalyn –Exhibitions –Haworth, Jann –Exhibitions –Kogelnik, Kiki – Exhibitions –Marisol, 1930 –Exhibitions –Saint- Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002 –Exhibitions — Pop art –Exhibitions — Women artists –20th century — Women artists –Catalogs –Feminism in art –Feminism and art. N6494.P6 S75 2010.

Lafarge John La Farge’s Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891. Elizabeth Hodermarsky. Yale University Press, c2010.
Contents: A second paradise: John La Farge’s search for the sublime in the twilight of the American landscape movement / Elizabeth Hodermarsky – Exoticisms in the South Seas: John La Farge and Henry Adams encounter the Pacific / Elizabeth C. Childs – John La Farge’s South Seas sketchbooks: their nature and their significance / Henry Adams – Common ground: John La Farge and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti / Elizabeth C. Childs – Paradise remembered: the late windows of John La Farge / John Stuart Gordon.

Subject: La Garge, John, 1835 – 1920 – Exhibitions – - La Farge, John 1835-1920 – - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. –Exhibitions – - La Farge, John 1835-1910 –Travel –Oceania –Exhibitions – - Oceania –In art –Exhibitions. N40.1.L15 Y3 2010.

Warhol Andy Warhol Making Money. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987. Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., c2010.
Contents: None.
Subject: Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987 – - Money in art – - Artists’ books. N40.1.W27 M33x 2010.

 

 

 

 

Roosevelt She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker. Brigid O’Farrell. Cornell University Press, c2010.
Contents: Why women should join unions – - Here comes Mrs. Roosevelt – - Practicing what you preach – - In her own way – - An essential element of freedom – - Pointing the way – - We have something to offer – - A revolutionary period – - Close to home.
Subject: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 – - Working class –United States –History –20th century – - Labor movement –United States –History –20th century – - Women in the labor movement –United States –History –20th century. CT275.R771 O3 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

Medicis America’s Medicis: the Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy. Suzanne Lobel. HarperCollins Publishers, c2010.
Contents: Preamble: an Imperial nest –To the glory of God –A passion for Asia –Bridging the past and the present: The Oriental Institute, the Cairo Museum, the Metropolitan Museum’s Assyrian sculptures, and the Rockefeller Archaeological museum, Jerusalem –Rockefeller Center –Mother’s museum: MoMA, 1929-39 –The Cloisters –Colonial Williamsburg and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum of American Fold Art –MoMA  under Nelson A. Rockefeller’s stewardship, 1939-69 –A modest man assumes his birthright: the Asia Society and Lincoln Center –The Rockefeller Collection at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco – The Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Mall –David Rockefeller: the Museum of Modern Art and the JPMorgan-Chase Corporate Art Collection –In memoriam: the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center in San Antonio, Texas –Smaller gifts –Kykuit: on a clear day you can see forever.
Subject: Rockefeller family –art collections – - Rockefeller family –Art patronage – - Art patrons –United States – - Philanthropists –United States. CT275.R676 L6 2010.

 

Schneemann Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle. Carolee Schneemann, 1939-, Duke University Press, c2010.
Contents:  Introduction –The Letters 1956/1968 – 1969/1975 – 1976/1986 – 1987/1999.
Subject: Schneemann, Carolee, 1939 –Correspondence – - Artists –United States –Correspondence. N40.1.S36773 C6 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swain Visual Sensations The Paintings of Robert Swain: 1967 – 2010. New York : Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, c2010.
Contents: Visual sensations/ by Gabriele Evertz – Artist statement/ by Robert  Swain – Color as content: Robert Swain and American art / by William C. Agee – Color Plates – Interview with Robert Swain / by Matthew Deleget.
Subject: Swain, Robert, 1940 –Exhibitions – - Swain, Robert, 1940 –Interviews – - Art –Psychology –Exhibitions. N40.1.S97 T5 2010.

 

 

 

 

—Doug Litts

Power Up: female pop art. Angela Stief. Wien : Kunsthalle ; Cologne : DuMont Buchverlag, c2010.

Contents: Female pop art- an introduction/Gerald Matt – Power up – back to the future/ Angela Steif – Other(s’) pop: the return of the repressed of two discourses / Kalliopi Minioudaki – Anke Kempkes on Evelyne Axell – Martin Walker on Niki de Saint Phalle – Belinda Grace Gardner on Christa Dichgans – Sid Sachs on Rosalyn Drexler – Aaron Rose on Sister Corita – Thomas Miessgang on Kiki Kogelnik – Mark Rappolt on Jann Hanworth – Thomas Miesggag on Dorothy Iannonne – Belinda Grace Gardner on Marisol – Appendix.

 

Subject: Axell, Evelyne, 1935-1972 – Exhibitions –Corita, 1918 – 1986 –Exhibitions –Dichgans, Christa, 1940 –Exhibitions — Drexler, Rosalyn –Exhibitions –Haworth, Jann –Exhibitions –Kogelnik, Kiki – Exhibitions –Marisol, 1930 –Exhibitions –Saint- Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002 –Exhibitions — Pop art –Exhibitions — Women artists –20th century — Women artists –Catalogs –Feminism in art –Feminism and art. N6494.P6 S75 2010.

Cartes-de-visite Album of 19th Century Artists

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The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery (AAPG) Library's collection has many special treasures. Few are unique items, but those that are unique are quite special. One of the library's unique items is an album of cartes-de-visite. The carte-de-visite was a type of photographic calling card that became popular with the development of photography during the mid-19th century. Collecting cards featuring famous people became popular and many collections ended up mounted in pages in an album like the one reproduced here. The anonymous person who collected the cards in the AAPG Library's album must have been interested in art because the majority, if not all, of the identifiable people are artists. This unique collection has been digitized by the Smithsonian Libraries and the entire album has been made available online in the Smithsonian Libraries' Galaxy of Images.

cartes page

The first part of the album is dedicated to American artists of the 19th century, featuring such famous names as Samuel Morse, Hiram Powers, and Rembrandt Peale as well as artists less well known today. The page above is a representative page depicting clockwise from top left, Frederic Church, the famous painter of the Hudson River School, Erastus Dow Palmer, William Richards, and William Page — all three arguably lesser-known today.

mystery

After the American artists, this collector added images of famous European artists, including portraits of Jean-Baptise-Camille Corot, Rosa Bonheur, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix. However, some of the presumably well-known artists at that time are not identified including the portrait of the woman above. Is she an artist? Probably, as all identified in the album were artists (including John Ruskin, although more famously know for his writings and art criticism). Is she European? Possibly, judging from her placement in the album, although she is placed right next to Daniel Huntington a famous New York artist. No photography studio is evident. Any ideas?

—Doug Litts

Grace Hartigan’s Birthday

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1 The 1962 edition of Current Biography (Wilson) states "The most celebrated woman painter in the United States today, Grace Hartigan, is a leading member of the New York School of abstract expressionists. She produces approximately one major painting a month and often sells a work before oil is dry (p.192)."

During the 1950s Grace Hartigan was indeed one of the most popular American women artists. Born in 1922 she grew up with little formal training in the arts. However, she moved to New York City in 1945 and continued to live and paint in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In Greenwich Village she met fellow artists and in 1950 was chosen to be included in the "Talent" show organized by Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro. With such critical backing, fame and one-person exhibitions followed, resulting in Hartigan being one of the most prominent names of the second generation of the New York School which included Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, and Robert Rauschenberg.

During the 1950s, Hartigan began to move from pure abstraction and began to use figural representation in her work. During this transition she began a collaboration with the poet Frank O'Hara who was greatly involved with the modern art world. The result of this collaboration was twelve paintings titled Oranges which incorporated texts from O'Hara's poems. Hartigan continued to produced works incorporating figuration through her career. However, by the 1960s her work declined in popularity due to opposing factors. Champions of pure abstraction, such as Clement Greenberg, lambasted her for including representational aspects in her work. Additionally the 1960s saw the rise of Pop and Minimalism. She moved to Baltimore, Maryland and taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art while she continued to paint and exhibit. She continued to teach at MICA until the year before her death in 2008 and remains an important figure of the New York School second generation.

The Smithsonian Libraries contains many books about Grace Hartigan. Additionally the library for the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery has three folders in its vertical file collection. One item (show above) in the vertical files is the 1959 announcement for the Tibor de Nagy Gallery exhibition of eight of the Oranges paintings Hartigan created in collaboration with O'Hara, The image above also shows a reproduction of one of the works from that series displayed in the exhbition.

(Illustration: Oranges, No. 7 from In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art by Russell Ferguson. MOCA, LA: 1999).

Grace Hartigan (March 28, 1922 — November 15, 2008)

—Doug Litts