The American Art staff at the Corcoran Gallery of Art is currently working on an authoritative catalogue of the museum’s renowned collection of pre-1945 paintings and sculpture. The Corcoran’s American art collection includes a remarkable number of iconic works in all genres from the mid-18th to the mid-20th century, while boasting outstanding breadth and depth in Hudson River School painting, 19th-century portraiture and genre painting, Impressionism, and early 20th-century realism. Highlights of the collection include:
To maximize accessibility, the Corcoran’s Pre-1945 American Paintings and Sculpture Collection Catalogue will comprise both a traditional book-format publication and an innovative online component. The book will feature essays written by noted American art scholars on 155 of the most important works in the collection, which comprises, in total, almost 900 works. These essays will be accompanied by color plates and black-and-white comparative illustrations. The balance of the collection will be documented with black-and-white illustrations and basic identifying information (artist, title, date, medium, accession number, and credit line). The introduction to the book, authored by Bechhoefer Curator of American Art Sarah Cash, will offer an in-depth and contextual study of William Wilson Corcoran’s role as an important early collector of American art. Appendices to the print publication will list all of the works in W. W. Corcoran’s original collection and those works exhibited in the Gallery’s prestigious Annual and Biennial exhibitions. The online catalogue—the Corcoran’s first such undertaking—will be of particular use to scholars. This electronic resource will provide curatorial data and images for every work in the collection. It will also feature comprehensive listings of inscriptions, technical notes, provenance, exhibition history, references, and related works for each of the 155 works featured in the print publication.
The Corcoran extends its thanks to the following donors for their support of the research phase of the Pre-1945 American Paintings and Sculpture Collection Catalogue: Furthermore: a publication program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund; The Getty Foundation; The Henry Luce Foundation; The Page & Otto Marx, Jr. Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; The Women’s Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; and a number of anonymous individual donors. The staff of the Pre-1945 American Paintings and Sculpture Collection Catalogue is as follows:
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 Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas, 61 x 96 1/4 in. Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund 78.1
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