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Helen A. Cooper

John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter

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Helen A. Cooper

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00071.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15608

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National Endowment for the Arts

Merrill Lynch

H. J. Heinz II, Charitable and Family Trust

Lila Acheson Wallace Fund

DeWitt Wallace Fund

Friends of American Arts at Yale

William Bernhard, B.A. 1954, and Catherine Cahill

(The Bernhill Fund)

Mr. and Mrs. S. Sidney Kahn, B.A. 1959

Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur L. Ross, B.A. 1959

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BOOKJohn Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter

Helen A. Cooper

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00071

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15599

John Trumbull's paintings of the key events of the Revolutionary War are among the most familiar and revered images in American art. In 1832 Trumbull gave to Yale College his most important history paintings and portraits. This gift established the Yale University Art Gallery, making it the first college art museum in the Western hemisphere. In celebration of this event, the Gallery has mounted the first major exhibition of Trumbull's work. The fully illustrated catalogue that accompanies the exhibition opens with a biography of Trumbull by Helen A. Cooper. Following it are interpretative essays by Jules David Prown on Trumbull as a history painter, Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque on the artist's conflicting attitudes toward portrait painting, Patricia Mullan Burnham on the religious subjects, Bryon Wolf on the landscapes, Martin Price on the literary themes, and Egon Verheyen on the Capitol Rotunda commissions. The essays are followed by extensive catalogue entries on 170 paintings and drawings.

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Helen A. Cooper

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Print publication date January 1982 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780894670244

EISBN 9780300234060

Illustrations 250 illus.

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