Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995 : Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lowery Stokes Sims, Sabine Rewald

With 65 paintings drawn from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibition chronicles the development of American still-life painting, from 1915 to 1995. Many prominent artists, including Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jim Dine, Franz Kline, and Marsden Hartley, have incorporated unconventional iconography, subject matter, and painting techniques into the genre, enriching it with layers of meaning previously unavailable to earlier artists. The exhibition is organized by the AFA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

175 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (colloquially, the “Met”) is the largest art museum in the United States.

It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."