American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue

by Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Represented are major holdings or works by John Singleton Coplay, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent.

The Collection ranges from Colonial portraits to works by Hopper, Stella, O'Keeffe and Pollock. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, owns one of the nation's preeminent collections of American paintings. Every painting in the Museum's collection - more than 1,600 in all - is recorded and illustrated in this book, the first comprehensive catalogue of the collection to appear in nearly thirty years.

The American holdings at the Museum grew by gift and purchase, and this catalogue and its introductory essay trace the evolution of the collection from an important gathering of local artists to its present status as a truly encyclopedic representation of American art.

Extensive new research, resulting in a significant number of changed attributions and titles (summarizes in the book's five indices), make this catalogue an indispensable tool for scholars and American art enthusiasts alike.

360 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997

About the author

The Museum of Fine Arts is an American art museum founded in 1870 & located in Boston, Massachusetts.

It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas.

Reviews

[Hubert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great catalogue and overview of holdings of a major American arts institution. Unfortunately there are no color plates, but still a useful resource.