Volume 57, Number 1 · January 14, 2010
Corners of the American Scene
By Sanford Schwartz
American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 28–May 23, 2010
Catalog of the exhibition edited by H. Barbara Weinberg and Carrie Rebora Barratt.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, 222 pp., $60 .00; $40.00 (paper)
'American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915,' at the Metropolitan Museum, is a version of a show our museums have done on and off over the years and no doubt will continue to do. Given the Met's own superb collection of American paintings, though, and its clout as a borrower—there are well-known works here by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singleton Copley, and Mary Cassatt, among others, that one is amazed were lent by their respective museums—few future such exhibitions, it seems, will be as richly stocked.
Review, 1044 words
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