Title: Addison Gallery of American Art : 65 years : a selective catalogue /
Authors: Faxon, Susan C.; Berman, Avis.; Reynolds, Jock.; Addison Gallery of American Art.
Publisher: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy ; Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Addison Gallery of American Art Exhibitions.; Addison Gallery of American Art Catalogs.; Art, American Exhibitions; Art Massachusetts Andover Exhibitions.; Art, American United States Catalogs.
Abstract: This volume, published to commemorate the museum's sixty-fifth anniversary, reflects the special qualities of the Addison Gallery and the outstanding quality and breadth of its holdings. Now numbering over 12,000 works, the Addison's collection includes significant American paintings, prints, works on paper, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography by generations of artists from Colonial times to the present, among them Copley, Revere, Eakins, Homer, Whistler.
Contents: Portraits of patronage : the history of the Addison Gallery's collection and its donors / Susan C. Faxon -- Creating a tradition : the Addison and the artist / Avis Berman -- The end depends on the beginning : some reflections on teaching / Jock Reynolds.