The Ogden Collection of Southern Art includes 1200 artworks dating from the early 18th century to the late 20th century. This book showcases 250 pieces from the collection accompanied by descriptions of the works and their makers, to provide the story of the visual arts in the American South.
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The Ogden Collection of Southern Art includes 1200 artworks dating from the early 18th century to the late 20th century. This book showcases 250 pieces from the collection accompanied by descriptions of the works and their makers, to provide the story of the visual arts in the American South.
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VG/VG. Green cloth with gilt lettering, brown spine. Green and color-illustrated dust jacket, white lettering on green spine. 292 pp. 1 bw, 245 color plates. Delehanty's opening essay traces the artistic trends and movements in the South including genre painting, impressionism, tonalism, and the emergence of women, African-American, and folk artists. The heart of the book is divided into thematic sections in which works are presented chronologically and often in conversing pairs, showing a persistent and striking crosscurrent of 20th-century folk art that is one of the distinctive characteristics of the visual arts in the South today. This book showcases 237 pieces in Roger Houston Ogden's collection of over 1200 Southern artworks dating from the early 18th century to the present. Includes a bibliography, index of artists with sources, and a general index.
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First edition, review copy with slip laid in. Large 4to. xi, (1), 292 pp. Profusely illustrated from color reproductions of the art works, maps. Selections from a collection assembled by Roger Ogden, a New Orleans lawyer and entrepreneur, "one of the finest collections of southern American art in the world...from the early eighteenth century to the present." Included in the collections are works by Audubon, Minnie Evans, Walker Evans, the Newcomb school, Shapleigh, Alice R.H. Smith, Sully, and William Aikin Walker, among many others. 237 works from the 1200 item collection are described here, "[sketching] the story of visual art in the south." Fine. Gilt-stamped two-tone cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (9128).
