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The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Walking Guide

By (author) Morrison H. Heckscher

$9.95

  • The only low priced guide to the newly installed American Art Wing of the Metropolitan available
  • Offers cleverly designed way-finding techniques including maps, gallery numbers, landmarks, and descriptions to guide each visitor with their most comfortable method
  • Features works by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Singer Sargent, John Singleton Copley, George Caleb Bingham, Winslow Homer, James McNeil Whistler, and Fredrick Remington, among many others
Full Description

Published to celebrate the grand reopening of the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this handy, beautifully illustrated book will be your personal tour guide through the galleries. Four visits planned by the museum’s curators are presented, including Architecture, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts in Visit One, Historic Interiors and Decorative Arts in Visit Two, Paintings and Sculpture in Visit Three, and the visible-storage facility in Visit Four. Each tour is presented using maps, room numbers, descriptions and useful landmarks to help orient you through the galleries, pointing out iconic highlights of American art such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s gilt-bronze Diana, the Frank Lloyd Wright Room, Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, and John Singer Sargent’s Madame X along the way. Featuring more than 100 exquisite works of American art and historic interiors, this cleverly designed companion will be essential for all visitors to the wing – whether you have only an hour to spend, or time for a more in-depth exploration.

About the Author

Morrison H. Heckscher is the Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of the American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Specifications
Publisher
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
ISBN
9781857597424
Published
18th Apr 2012
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
USA & Canada
Size
4.33 in x 7.76 in
Pages
96 Pages
Illustrations
120 color
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