Art for every home : Associated American Artists, 1934-2000

Art for every home : Associated American Artists, 1934-2000 / edited by Elizabeth G. Seaton, Jane Myers, Gail Windisch ; Foreword by Linda Duke ; With contributions by Ellen Paul Denker, Karen J. Herbaugh, Lara Kuykendall, Jane Myers, Bill North, Elizabeth G. Seaton, Susan Teller, Tiffany Elena Washington, Kristina Wilson, Gail Windisch.

"This book will provide the first comprehensive and critical overview of Associated American Artists (AAA), the commercial enterprise best known as the publisher of prints by Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. It addresses not only AAA's storied involvement in the sale...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Other Authors: Seaton, Elizabeth Gaede (Editor), Myers, Jane, 1955- (Editor), Windisch, Gail (Editor)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Manhattan, Kansas : Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, [2015]
Subjects:
Associated American Artists > Exhibitions.
Art, American > Reproduction > Exhibitions.
Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art > Economic aspects > United States > Exhibitions.
Art and society > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • A chronology of Associated American Artists, 1934-2000 / Gail Windisch
  • Delivering art to American homes : Associated American Artists and the two men who shaped it, 1934--84 / Gail Windisch
  • "Genuine acceptance" : Aaron Bohrod and Associated American Artists / Jane Myers
  • Prints in the heartland : Raymond L. Budge / Elizabeth G. Seaton
  • The Associated American Artists gallery setting / Tiffany Elena Washington
  • Cultural democracy/consumer democracy : New Deal printmaking and Associated American Artists, 1934-43 / Elizabeth G. Seaton
  • Gelatones and paintagraphs : Associated American Artists and the color reproduction / Bill North
  • "Art of every possible service" : Associated American Artists and corporate commissions during the war decade / Elizabeth G. Seaton, Gail Windisch, and Jane Myers
  • John Steuart Curry's 'Our good earth' / Lara Kuykendall
  • Associated American Artists and corporate patronage / Gail Windisch and Jane Myers
  • Modern art for modern living : Associated American Artists and decorative home accessories / Gail Windisch and Ellen Paul Denker
  • "Ceramic pieces in the mode of our day" : Stonelain and decorative taste in the American home, 1950-54 / Kristine Wilson
  • "Apology areas," or How to decorate with pictures / Kristina Wilson
  • Textile art for the masses / Karen J. Herbaugh
  • At Associated American Artists with Sylvan Cole Jr. / Susan Teller.

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