American 20-21st Century Representational Art

Resource Library articles and essays published in 1997-1998

 

(above:  John Douglas Woodward, Crescent Moon over Bridge, 1870, oil on canvas, 14 x 24 inches. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "American 20th-21st Century Multi-Subject Representational Art." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the date of publication in Resource Library.

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Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

The Mississippi Art Colony Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (12/24/98)

Contemporary Classicism at Neuberger Museum of Art !2/23/98)

Posessed by Furies (12/19/98)

Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (12/15/98)

Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection from the National Museum of American Art (12/3/98)

 

Our Nation's Colors: A Celebration of American Painting -- Selections from the Wichita Art Museum (11/20/98)

Art Healing and Friendship: The Doctor Albert Grokoest Collection (11/5/98)

13th Annual Plein Air Painters of America Show and Sale (10/18/98)

Old Master Dialogues: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings hy Melville Holmes (9/21/98)

Production Pop: Prints, Posters, Books, and Multiples from Indiana University Collections (9/16/98)

 

Mammoth Art Guild 29th Annual Labor Day Arts and Crafts Festival (9/14/98)

Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America (9/1/98)

Bernhard Gutmann (8/20/98)

Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip (8/20/98)

Another Look at the Paintings of Pieter van Veen (8/11/98)

 

Posters American Style (8/5/98)

Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits (8/3/98)

Benny Alba, Astrid Preston and Sharon Hildebrand Paintings at Saginaw (7/28/98)

Robert Berlind: Paintings (1892 - 1996) (7/21/98)

Artists for Nature in the Copper River Delta (7/11/98)

 

Our Nation's Colors: A Celebration of American Painting - Selections from the Wichita Art Museum (7/11/98)

Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection from the National Museum of American Art (5/24/98)

Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection from the National Museum of American Art (5/6/98)

Arthur Dove: A Retrospective Exhibition

Heroic Painting (5/18/98)

 

The Walter O. Evans Collection of African-American Art (5/18/98)

Woman - the Artists' View

Richard Whitten: Invisible Cities (9/19/97)

Visions of A Changing America: Depression Era Prints from the Collection of Herschel and Fern Cohen

Masterworks Come to KMA (1/29/98)

 

The Art of Enchantment: Children's Book Illustrators

Friendly Persuasions: Folk Art from the Collection of The Chase Manhattan Bank

Posters American Style (1/2/98)

Visual History of the Art of Fly Fishing

Animal as Muse (4/14/98)

 

Dick and Jane: Illustrations of an American Education (11/17/97)

Exhibition Focuses on 20th Century America Women Artists

Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology (4/4/98)

Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper (1/4/98)

Seattle Collects Paintings: Works from Private Collections

 

Charles Santore Children's Illustrations (9/11/97)

Heroic Painting (4/26/98)

Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum

Sentimental Journey: Images of the Home in Mind and Heart

Vintage Delights: Paintings & Bronzes from the Mason-Scharfestein Collection

 

National Academy's 173rd Annual Exhibition (4/14/98)

Fair and Free: Images of Childhood, 1824-1992 (11/21/97)

The Artist's Eye Offers New Insights on the Critical Eye of the Artist

Limited-Edition National Academy Print Portfolio Available

 

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1999

 

(above: Mabel May Woodward, Young Girl with Fish Bowl, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches, Shannon's Fine Art, Milford, Connecticut. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

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