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American Artists and the Harvest

By: Charles C. Eldredge

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American Artists and the Harvest

By: Charles C. Eldredge

The mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest. The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists’ studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plot for family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved less immediately attractive for artists. In We Gather Together, Charles C. Eldredge examines the period in between—when many Americans were farmers and much of America was farmland. Organized in a series of case studies each devoted to a single crop, We Gather Together initially focuses on familiar commodity crops such as corn, wheat, and potatoes, and then expands to other yields by Native American harvesters and California floriculturists, as well as winter ice cutters and coastal seaweed gatherers. This novel history of agriculture and art traces parallel developments on land and canvas, highlighting breakthroughs in each field. Artists such as Winslow Homer, Doris Lee, and Georgia O’Keeffe are joined by innovators in agriculture, whether mechanical inventors such as Eli Whitney, John Deere, and Cyrus McCormick or genetic hybridizers such as Luther Burbank, W. Atlee Burpee, and Theodosia Shepherd. Surveying an astonishing amount of material and a wide range of paintings, prints, and other artworks from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, We Gather Together gorgeously demonstrates how the use of agricultural metaphors permeated American visual culture. The harvest, we see here, came to signify and dominate politics, poetry, and popular culture, ultimately representing a primary facet of American identity and nationhood.

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Univ of California Press

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0520380312

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9780520380318

John Steuart Curry's Hoover and the Flood

Painting Modern History

By: Charles C. Eldredge

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John Steuart Curry's Hoover and the Flood

Painting Modern History

By: Charles C. Eldredge

In 1940, John Steuart Curry painted a scene of Herbert Hoover directing relief efforts after the Mississippi River flood of 1927 as part of a series of paintings depicting modern American history commissioned by Life magazine. In this in-depth case

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UNC Press Books

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0807830879

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9780807830871

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940

By: Barbara Buhler Lynes,Georgia O'Keeffe,Charles C. Eldredge,James Moore,Albuquerque Museum,Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art

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Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940

By: Barbara Buhler Lynes,Georgia O'Keeffe,Charles C. Eldredge,James Moore,Albuquerque Museum,Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art

This book features fifty-four paintings, photographs, and drawings of the calla lily dating from the 1860s to 1940. It includes nine of O'Keeffe's most renowned paintings of the flower as well as works by Imogen Cunningham, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, John La Farge, Man Ray, Joseph Stella, and Edward Weston. The book includes an introduction by esteemed O'Keeffe scholar Barbara Buhler Lynes and essays on various aspects of the flower in American art by Charles C. Eldredge and James Moore."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Yale University Press

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0300097387

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9780300097382

Georgia O'Keeffe

American and Modern

By: Charles C. Eldredge,Georgia O'Keeffe

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Georgia O'Keeffe

American and Modern

By: Charles C. Eldredge,Georgia O'Keeffe

Reproductions of O'Keeffe's works highlight this examination of the artist's life, including her place in the American tradition and her return to the rural subjects of her childhood

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0300055811

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9780300055818

Santa Fe

A Modern History, 1880-1990

By: Henry Jack Tobias,Charles E. Woodhouse

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Santa Fe

A Modern History, 1880-1990

By: Henry Jack Tobias,Charles E. Woodhouse

A readable, captivating social history centered on the essence of Santa Fe--the lives of its Hispano and Anglo residents.

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UNM Press

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0826323316

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We Gather Together

American Artists and the Harvest

By: Charles C. Eldredge

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American Artists and the Harvest

By: Charles C. Eldredge

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Georgia O'Keeffe

American and Modern

By: Charles C. Eldredge,Georgia O'Keeffe

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American and Modern

By: Charles C. Eldredge,Georgia O'Keeffe

Reproductions of O'Keeffe's works highlight this examination of the artist's life, including her place in the American tradition and her return to the rural subjects of her childhood

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We Gather Together

We Gather Together

John Steuart Curry's Hoover and the Flood

John Steuart Curry's Hoover and the Flood

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Santa Fe

Santa Fe

We Gather Together

We Gather Together

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