Wednesday 9 June 2010Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum

Published to celebrate the Parrish Art Museum’s rich collection, American Landscapes charts the development of landscape painting over two centuries

This vibrant book includes 42 color plates ranging from majestic views to intimate glimpses, all of which contribute to what we have come to think of as a distinctly American vision. American Landscapes features works by some of the most important figures in the history of American art, including the Hudson River School’s Thomas Doughty and Asher B. Durand; European-influenced artists Theodore Robinson, William Lamb Picknell, and William Stanley Haseltine; and artists associated with major American artist colonies such as John Henry Twachtman, John Sloan, and Ernest Lawson. In addition, this volume features important highlights of the museum’s unique collection of paintings by artists who lived and worked on Eastern Long Island, including William Merritt Chase, Samuel Colman, Irving Wiles and Frederick Childe Hassam, as well as contemporary painters Fairfield Porter, Jane Freilicher, and Alex Katz.

An essay by Alicia G. Longwell, the Parrish Art Museum’s Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, traces the history of this genre from the early 19th to the late 20th century. Through an examination of the collected paintings, Longwell charts both the development of landscape painting and a narrative of individual responses to the natural world. The book also includes individual catalogue entries, a checklist of plates, and an index.


The publication accompanies the national tour of the exhibition American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, first seen at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, in the fall of 2009 and now on a national tour, travelling to the Mobile Museum of Art, October 15, 2010 to January 5, 2011 and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, January 30, 2011–April 24, 2011.

The Author
Alicia G. Longwell is the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, at the Parrish Art Museum since 2004 and is the author of Photographs from the William Merritt Chase Archives, with Ronald G. Pisano (1992); North Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now (2004); and SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (2008). She has organized 25 exhibitions for the Parrish since becoming assistant curator in 1997, including solo exhibitions on the work of artists Barbara Bloom, Frederick Kiesler, Charlotte Park, Alan Shields, and Jack Youngerman, among others, and holds the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

AMERICAN LANDSCAPES
Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum
RRP US$39.95/UK£24.95
Hardback
ISBN 978-1-904832-74-4
104 pages
250 × 210 mm, (8 ¼ × 10 in.), portrait
45 colour and 5 b & w illustrations
Publication date: September, 2010
Publisher: D Giles Limited, London

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