Bibliograph

Art in the American South, works from the Ogden collection, by Randolph Delehanty

Type

Label

Art in the American South, works from the Ogden collection, by Randolph Delehanty

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and indexes

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Art in the American South

Nature of contents

catalogsbibliography

Oclc number

34933494

Responsibility statement

by Randolph Delehanty

Sub title

works from the Ogden collection

Summary

Roger Houston Ogden, an attorney and entrepreneur in New Orleans, has over the past quarter century assembled one of the finest collections of southern American art in the world. The Ogden Collection of Southern Art, which currently numbers more than 1,200 works, includes oil paintings, water-colors, drawings, sculptures, photographs, and other southern artworks dating from the early eighteenth century to the present. From that remarkable collection Randolph DelehantyHas selected 237 splendid pieces to showcase here. Full-color reproductions, and Delehanty's accompanying descriptions of the works and their makers, together sketch the story of the visual arts in the South

Table Of Contents

I. The South: The Last Frontier in American Art -- II. Works from the Ogden Collection. 1. Landscape and Light. 2. Rivers and Seaboards. 3. Southern Flora, Fauna, and Clay. 4. Still Lifes. 5. Rural and Urban Scenes. 6. Southerners. 7. Spirit, Soul, and Signs in the South -- III. The Making of the Ogden Collection

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