Maine and American Artwork: The Farnsworth Artwork Museum

Revealed on the event of Maine’s bicentennial, the e-book considers greater than 200 main works of American artwork from the Farnsworth Artwork Museum’s spectacular holdings and particulars how the state has figured prominently within the growth of American artwork. The quantity consists of artists as numerous as Andrew Wyeth, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Francesco Clemente, Robert Rauschenberg, and Alex Katz, amongst others. By way of their work, a captivating depiction of the state–and certainly of the event of American art–emerges. The quantity will characteristic two historic websites: the Farnsworth Homestead (the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations house of founder Lucy Copeland Farnsworth) and the Nationwide Historic Landmark Olson Home, inspiration for some 300 works by Andrew Wyeth, together with Christina’s World.

The e-book additionally considers Lucy Copeland Farnsworth’s distinctive imaginative and prescient to create a museum, library, and historic home, putting her among the many few and nonetheless under-recognized ladies who created museums all through the US within the early twentieth century.