Exhibition itinerary : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 16 - December 13, 1992 ; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 3 - April 11, 1993 ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 23 - August 8, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CHOICE Review
This catalog of an exhibition originating at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, surveys American paintings and sculpture directly shaped by the experience of Italy. The introductory essay gives an overview of the importance of that experience, and the following five essays discuss different aspects of the experience on painters and sculptors; in the writings of Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James; as it focused on Venice; and in the work of 20th-century artists. The main catalog illustrates 130 works by 72 artists from Benjamin West to Maurice Prendergast, and each entry includes a brief statement about the artist and the work. This is followed by short entries on 80 related works, such as letters, photographs, and jewelry. The arrangement of the main catalog in eight sections is overcomplicated. But this is a minor drawback of this book, which is comparable in quality to T. E. Stebbins and C. Troyen's, The Lane Collection: 20th-Century Painting in the American Tradition (CH, Nov'83), and which no library should be without. G. Eager; Bucknell University