American stories
Subtitle: paintings of everyday life, 1765-1915
By: edited by H. Barbara Weinberg and Carrie Rebora Barratt ; essays by Carrie Rebora Barratt ... [et al.].
Contributors: Weinberg, H. Barbara 1942-; Barratt, Carrie Rebora.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781588393364; 9781588393371; 9780300155082
Subjects: Genre painting, American -- Exhibitions; Manners and customs in art -- Exhibitions; United States -- In art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions; In art
Other titles: Paintings of everyday life, 1765-1915
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 6, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 28- May 23, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventing American stories, 1765-1830 / Carrie Rebora Barratt; title: Stories for the public, 1830-1860 / Bruce Robertson; title: Stories of war and reconciliation, 1860-1877 / Margaret C. Conrads; title: Cosmopolitan and candid stories, 1877-1915 / H. Barbara Weinberg.