Wanda M. Corn

Avoiding well-worn discussions of style and abstraction, the author explores the rich American artscape that developed between world wars from a cultural perspective, exploring the role of art in the great American search for identity.

Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935

The Great American Thing

Whitney Museum of American Art

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Grant Wood

Catalogue of a traveling exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and other galleries.

Grant Wood, the Regionalist Vision

Annelise K. Madsen

Charlene G. Garfinkle

History of women during America's Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her topic the grand neoclassical Woman's Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a structure celebrating modern woman's progress in education, arts, and sciences.

Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition

Women Building History

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Marc Simpson

Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transcience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - this book explores this painterly phenomenon.

Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly

Like Breath on Glass

Georgia O'Keeffe

This book explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle.

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