Adventures in modern art : the Charles K. Williams II collection /

"In 1990 archaeologist Charles K. Williams II began seriously to acquire paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and drawings by modern American artists, after about ten years of collecting 19th- and 20th-century American and European prints. Williams amassed an important collection that includes e...

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Main Author: Shoemaker, Innis H.
Corporate Author: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Other Authors: Criss, Jennifer T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : New Haven : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; In association with Yale University Press, c2009.
Series:Internet Archive Lending Library
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Acquisition Notes:Donated In loving memory of Dr. Thomas & Charlotte Lajos (VOLU)
Table of Contents:
  • Figure in movement ; Head : construction with crossing planes / Alexander Archipenko
  • Loft buildings, no. 1 : The machine ; Tree stump ; Night at Russell's Corners / George Ault
  • Red nude / Milton Avery
  • Trombone player / Romare Bearden
  • The beach, Newport / George Wesley Bellows
  • Sugar cane : Sugar mill ; The apple is discord / Thomas Hart Benton
  • Self-portrait / George Biddle
  • The club ; Out to lunch / Isabel Bishop
  • Harlem River from Morris Mansion : Motif milltown ; Red port in winter, Morris Canal : Red port in winter ; Moonshine fantasy ; Composition for color themes / Oscar Bluemner
  • Abstraction with bouquet / Hugh Henry Breckenridge
  • Waterfall : August noon ; Stormy November day / Charles Burchfield
  • Polo spill / Paul Cadmus
  • Reclining nude / Arthur B. Carles
  • Portrait of Carlo Cirelli / Giorgio de Chirico
  • Boat and grain elevators / Ralston Crawford
  • Cubist landscape / Jean Joseph Crotti
  • Composition 1863 / Stuart Davis
  • Straw flowers ; Nana before the mirror ; Gloucester : sails and masts ; Jazz ; Tuberoses ; Three sailors on the beach / Charles Demuth
  • Still life, no. 3 / Preston Dickinson
  • Gear ; Frozen pool at sunset : The barn next door / Arthur Dove
  • Night hawks ; Old stone bridge ; Mid Manhattan / Lyonel Feininger
  • Woman / Jared French
  • Chiavenna bust I / Alberto Giacometti
  • Ceremonial bronze taking the form of a bird II / Morris Graves
  • Shouting senator / William Gropper
  • Two women walking : The theatergoers / George Grosz
  • Portrait of Theresa Lewensohn / Philip Guston
  • Composition / Marsden Hartley
  • Corn Hill / Edward Hopper
  • Newcastle, Delaware ; Abstraction : still life #6 / Earl Horter
  • The arcades / Henry Koerner
  • Woodstock pastorale / Jack Levine
  • Rail yards from Weehawken, New Jersey / Martin Lewis
  • Factory building, New Jersey / Louis Lozowick
  • Wood interior ; Female figure / Man Ray
  • Grain elevators at Weehawken : Weehawken sequence #3 : Weehawkin sequence #41 / John Marin
  • Gayety burlesk / Reginald Marsh
  • The white oak ; View from ship / Jan Matulka
  • Waiting for the bus / Kenneth Hayes Miller
  • Wounded stag / Elie Nadelman
  • Rain forest column XXIV / Louise Nevelson
  • Red poppies / Emil Nolde
  • Nude series V / Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Game of pretend / Alton Pickens
  • Bathers, New England / Maurice B. Prendergast
  • Sea monster ; The boat / Odilon Redon
  • The accordionist ; Supplication / Hugo Robus
  • Synchromist nude ; Synchromy No. 8, part II / Morgan Russell
  • A waterfall / John Singer Sargent
  • Landscape (with bridge) / Morton Schamberg
  • Study for "Jersey homesteads mural" ; Melancholia / Ben Shahn
  • Water : Neighbors : Neighbors No. 2 / Charles Sheeler
  • Study for "Battle of Lights" ; Portrait of Joe Gould ; Palm tree and bird : Tropical floral : Tropical flowers ; Golden fall / Joseph Stella
  • Study in form / Joseph Storrs
  • Pierrot / Pavel Tchelitchew
  • Four figures : The forest / Max Weber
  • Plowing / Grant Wood
  • Mountains ; The awakening / Marguerite Thompson Zorach
  • Yosemite Falls / William Zorach.