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The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest
collections of American folk art. For Kith and Kin provides an
introduction to that collection through more than sixty of its most
outstanding objects. Selected by premier American art scholar
Judith A. Barter, the majority of these objects have never before
been published. In a groundbreaking opening essay, Barter revisits
the earliest days of folk-art collecting in Chicago, beginning in
the 1890s. She pays special attention to the passionate individuals
who sought out unique and expressive examples of American folk art,
building private collections that they later donated to the Art
Institute. Including beautiful reproductions and detailed entries
for each of the sixty-one objects it features, this book highlights
an array of masterworks such as "primitive" New England portraits,
a face jug from South Carolina, New Mexican ceramics, a
weathervane, and ship figureheads. Distributed for the Art
Institute of Chicago
The first publication to focus on the Art Institute's outstanding
collection of American modernism, this volume includes over 175
important paintings, sculptures, decorative-art objects, and works
on paper made in North America between World War II and 1955.
Together they fully reflect the history of American art in these
decades, including examples of early modernism, Social Realism,
Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. Among the paintings are
such iconic works as Hopper's Nighthawks and Wood's American
Gothic, along with notable pieces by Davis, De Kooning, Hartley,
Lawrence, Marin, O'Keeffe, Pollock, and Sheeler. Among the
sculptors represented are Calder, Cornell, and Noguchi. Spectacular
decorative artwork by the Eameses, Grotell, Neutra, Saarinen, F. L.
Wright, and Zeisel are also featured. Reproduced in full color,
each work is accompanied by an accessible and up-to-date text,
complete with comparative illustrations. The introduction traces
the formation of this important collection by a number of noted
curators, collectors, and patrons. Distributed for the Art
Institute of Chicago
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