Painting the Town
Subtitle: Cityscapes of New York (Paintings from the Museum of the City of New York)
Contributors: Michele H. Bogart (Contributor); William R. Taylor (Contributor); Barbara Ball Buff (Contributor); Jan Seidler Ramirez (Editor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300081992
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Iconography, subjects depicted in art; Painting & paintings; Permanent Collection Catalogs; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Subjects & Themes - General; Art / General; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Catalogs; In art; New York; New York (N.Y.); New York (State); Painting; Painting, American
Description: "For more than two centuries, artists have captured New York's harbors, skylines, festivities, street scenes, and buildings in paintings that shed brilliant light on aspects of the city's history. This beautiful book introduces nearly 160 of these urban scene paintings. Drawn from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, the works reflect the shifting moods, restless energy, and harsh contradictions of this consummate metropolis.".

"The cityscapes - painted by such well-known artists as John Sloan, Asher Durand, and Ben Shahn as well as by less familiar names - span the full stylistic range of American painting from the post-Revolutionary period to the present day."--BOOK JACKET.