Auspicious vision
Subtitle: Edward Wales Root and American modernism
By: Mary E. Murray, Paul D. Schweizer, Michael D. Somple ; with an essay by Suzanne Smeaton and Lisa Koenigsberg ; John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler, principal photographers.
Contributors: Schweizer, Paul D.; Somple, Michael D., 1975-; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.
Publisher: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Utica, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780915895342
Subjects: Root, Edward Wales, -- d. 1956 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. -- Museum of Art -- Exhibitions; Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art -- New York (State) -- Utica -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "50th-anniversary commemoration of Edward Wales Root's bequest in late 1956 of 227 modern American paintings and drawings to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute's Museum of Art"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Munson-William-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, N.Y., Oct. 14, 2007-Jan. 27. 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface/Introduction; title: 1. Auspicious vision : Edward Wales Root and American modernism / [by] Mary E. Murray and Paul D. Schweizer; title: 2. Trends in Modern American framing : the Edward Wales Root Bequest, A case study / [by] Suzanne Smeaton and Lisa Koenigsberg; title: 3. Catalogue of the Edward W. Root bequest / [by] Joseph Trovato, Mary E. Murray, Paul D. Schweizer, and Michael D. Somple; title: 4. Appendix 1. Edward W. Root's gifts to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, 1949 to 1955; title: Appendix 2. Purchases and gifts of art from Grace Root between 1956 and 1964; title: 6. Appendix 3. Edward W. Root's gifts of art to the Addison Gallery of American Art, Everson Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art; title: 7. Appendix 4. Edward W. Root's art library; title: 8. Appendix 5. Edward W. Root's art bibliography : unpublished and published sources; title: Bibliographic references/Index.