| Albany Institute of History & Art: 200 Years of Collecting Contributor(s): Groft, Tammis K. (Editor), MacKay, Mary Alice (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1555951015 ISBN-13: 9781555951016 Publisher: Distribution Partners OUR PRICE: $45.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History and Art is one of the nation's oldest cultural institutions. Today, it boasts outstanding collections largely focused on New York State's upper Hudson River valley. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General - Art | History - General - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
| Dewey: 709.747 |
| LCCN: 98017812 |
| Series: Albany Institute of History and Art |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 9" W x 12" (3.40 lbs) 332 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History and Art is one of the nation's oldest cultural institutions. Today, it boasts outstanding collections largely focused on New York State's Upper Hudson Valley. These include Hudson River School landscape paintings, portraits by Ezra Ames and Charles Loring Elliott, sculpture by Erastus Dow Palmer, landscape and interior paintings by Walter Launt Palmer, and Albany -made silver and other crafts. This comprehensive overview of the Albany Institute of History and Art's American art and decorative-arts collections, presents color plates and essays on about 130 objects (of a total exceeding 20,000). Dating from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the 1990s, each object in this volume was chosen for its national significance, artistic merit, and relevance to the Institute's mission: collecting and interpreting the art, history, and culture of New York State's Upper Hudson Valley through four centuries. |