Theodore E. Stebbins

Exceptionally informative on aspects of American Art and Artists.

Essays by leading authorities on the artist's work accompany a stunning collection of nearly two hundred photographs by modernist American photographer Charles Sheeler, offering a landmark retrospective of of the work of the influential master of twentieth-century photography.

In 1983, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts was challenged by the Louvre in Paris to put together a massive exposition of important American Paintings. This catalog is the result with countless color plates of fine American oil paintings. This book includes the 1983 newspaper article and a folder on the exposition. The show was in Boston, Corcoran Gallery in Washington, and the Grand Palais in Paris. all in 1983-84.

Unfortunately, but for the mercifully brief biographies of the artists featured, this exhibition catalog features terribly dusty writing. Making up for that though, are dozens upon dozens of beautiful, little known masterpieces depicting everything that an artist could possibly paint throughout Italy. Highlights are certainly the works by Benjamin West, J.M. Whistler and John Singer Sargent.