To Make a World : : George Ault and 1940S America
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Mar. 11-Sept. 5, 2011. Exhibition will travel to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., and Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Ga.
Foreword / by Elizabeth Brown -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- To make a world: George Ault and 1940s America -- George Ault chronology -- List of illustrations.
An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault (1891-1948) created works that provide a unique window on to the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. This book features nearly twenty of Ault's paintings alongside those of his contemporaries, including Edward Hopper, and Andrew Wyeth.
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PUBLISHED
New Haven [CT] : In association with Yale University Press, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 151 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300172393
0300172397
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Ault, George, 1891-1948.
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
SUBJECTS
Ault, George, -- 1891-1948 -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.