Frick Art & Historical Center

Philbrook Museum of Art

James Frederick Peck

William Adolphe Bouguereau

Appleton Museum of Art (Ocala, Fla.)

William Bouguereau (1825–1905) was an influential French academic painter, who taught a long succession of gifted students, primarily at the private Académie Julian in Paris. Among them, Bouguereau instructed more than two hundred young American artists. In the Studios of Paris provides a unique look at the history of Parisian art education during the last quarter of the 19th century and its profound influence on American art. This landmark publication—the first to focus exclusively on Bouguereau and his American pupils—presents sixty-five paintings, drawings, and prints by the master and eleven of his most prominent students, including Eanger Irving Couse, Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau, and Robert Henri. A series of carefully researched essays place the artists’ work in historical context and discuss various American responses to Bouguereau’s painting and pedagogical techniques, along with the subsequent reception and collecting of their work in the United States.

William Bouguereau & His American Students

In the Studios of Paris

Newark Museum

Off the Pedestal is the first book to explore the radical change that occurred in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War. Three critical essays draw on the visual culture of the period to show how postbellum social changes in the United States brought issues of subordination and autonomy to the surface for women in much the same way that it did for blacks. As women began attending college in greater numbers, entering professions previously dominated by men, and demanding greater personal freedom, these "new women" were featured more frequently in the visual arts and in a manner that made it clear that they had ambitions outside the domestic sphere.

New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent

Off the Pedestal

Andy Grundberg

Vik Muniz

Linda Benedict-Jones

While working at the Frick Art & Historical Center in 1999 and 2000, Vik Muniz chose Clayton as a site for exploring the many traces that remain of the pleople who moved through its rooms more than a century ago. His suite of images is an open narrative compelling viewers to test the veracity of what they see and to imagine their own stories within his constructed history.

Picture Stories by Vik Muniz for Very Little Folks

Clayton Days

Frick Art & Historical Center

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