Terra Foundation Publications

Art of the United States is a landmark volume that presents three centuries of U.S. art through a broad array of historical texts, including writings by artists, critics, patrons, literary figures, and other commentators. With contextual essays, explanatory headnotes, a chronology of U.S. historical landmarks, maps, and full-color illustrations of key artworks, the volume is intended for U.S. and international audiences ranging from undergraduates and museum visitors to art historians and other scholars. Texts by a range of artists and cultural figures—including John Adams, Thomas Cole, Frederick Douglass, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Clement Greenberg, and Cindy Sherman—are grouped according to historical era alongside additional featured artists. The volume brings together multiple voices throughout the ages to provide a framework for learning and critical thinking on U.S. art.

John Davis and Michael Leja. Edited by Francesca Rose.

Softcover, 544 pages, 90 color plates, 36 halftones, 4 maps

Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2020.

$39, available through The University of Chicago Press.

For subscribers in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom, the volumes are featured on the Art & Architecture ePortal.

The Terra Foundation Essays series provides an international forum for the thorough and sustained exploration of fundamental ideas and concepts that have shaped American art and culture over time. Exploring and illuminating a selection of important ideas within the production and consumption of art in the United States over three centuries, this series presents original research by an international roster of established and emerging scholars who consider American art in its multiple, trans-geographic contexts. The essays in each volume expand the conceptual and methodological terrain of scholarship on American art, offering comparative models and conceptual tools relevant to all scholars of art history and visual culture, as well as other disciplines within the humanities.

Rachael Z. DeLue (Princeton University) serves as series editor for the Terra Foundation Essays series, which includes six volumes: Picturing, Scale, Circulation, Experience, Humans, and Intermedia.

The Terra Foundation Essays are published by the Terra Foundation for American Art and distributed by The University of Chicago Press.

For subscribers in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom, the volumes are featured on the Art & Architecture ePortal.

On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago’s art and design legacy initiated by the Terra Foundation. Obrist, who has undertaken a life-long project of interviewing cultural figures, spoke with more than twenty of Chicago’s most innovative and influential artists, designers, architects, writers, and other creatives. In their interviews, this diverse group of creatives provided insights into their artistic processes, influences, and ideas about and hopes for their shared city of Chicago. Among the participants were social-practice artist/developer Theaster Gates, architect Jeanne Gang, writer Eve Ewing, Hairy Who artists Art Green and Suellen Rocca, performance/installation artist Shani Crowe, and the city’s cultural historian Tim Samuelson.

Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon serves as documentation for this event, including edited transcripts of the interviews, biographies of the participants, photos of the event, and images of the artists’ work.

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alison Cuddy

Softcover, 192 pages, 100 color plates

Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2019.

$24.95, available through The University of Chicago Press.

The Terra Foundation uses its collection of American art from the 1750s to 1980s to fulfill its mission. Since the foundation’s establishment in 1978, it has sought to share the collection’s pieces by American artists like Mary Cassatt, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Edward Hopper with national and international audiences, encouraging the study of the art of the United States around the world.

This volume helps to realize the foundation’s mission to bring art and scholarship to a global audience. The handbook entries and scholars’ responses to the artworks that comprise these conversations provide insight not only into the collection and its holdings, but also into the foundation’s history of making these works accessible to art historians and art lovers around the world.

Edited by Katherine M. Bourguignon and Peter John Brownlee.

Softcover, 308 pages, 130 color plates

Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018.

$24.95, available through The University of Chicago Press.

A version is available online at conversations.terraamericanart.org, which is accompanied by ArtNav, a digital interpretive tool to explore works in the collection in greater depth.

The Gilded Age of the United States—a time of prosperity and decorative opulence at the close of the nineteenth century—inspired an equally extravagant artistic outpouring, particularly in portraiture of high-society women. This volume accompanies a previous exhibition at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny (currently Musée des Impressionismes Giverny) and provides critical insight to the varied representations of femininity in art of the Gilded Age. Inside, readers will find works by painters John White Alexander, Thomas Eakins, William T. Dannat, and John Singer Sargent, as well as photographers Gertrude Käsebier, George Henry Seeley, Edward Steichen, and Clarence H. White.

Edited by Vanessa Lecomte, with essays by Sarah Burns, Vanessa Lecomte, and Olivier Meslay.

Hardcover, 144 pages, 80 plates

Bilingual French / English edition

Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2008.

$49, available through The University of Chicago Press.

As US colonization expanded westward in the 1860s, the United States government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. This volume presents memorable glass-plate photographs from these federal surveys. The selection includes breathtaking views of iconic sites such as Yosemite, as well as lesser-known ethnographic portraits taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, William H. Jackson, and William Bell. The essays discuss the complex ideologies underlying the use of photography to portray both American landscapes and Native Americans and includes groundbreaking research on how the distribution of these images at home and abroad contributed to the aggrandizement of the American West.

With images all drawn from French public collections, which hold a significant number of these US survey photographs, this volume accompanies a past Musée d’Art Américain Giverny (currently Musée des Impressionismes Giverny) exhibition.

Edited by François Brunet and Bronwyn Griffith, with essays by François Brunet and Mick Gidley.

Hardcover, 136 pages, 100 color illustrations

Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007.

Also available in a French-language edition

$49, available through The University of Chicago Press.

For subscribers in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom, the volume is featured on the Art & Architecture ePortal.

This volume accompanies a past exhibition at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny (currently Musée des Impressionismes Giverny) that showcased Mary Cassatt’s engravings, from her first series in the 1880s to the color aquatints of the 1890s.

In this text, Michel Melot examines Cassatt’s printmaking practice through the lens of the combined cultural influences of the United States and France while both countries experienced, at a different pace and with a different history, a new economic upsurge. Melot considers Cassatt’s role in the history of impressionism as an American woman artist in France pursuing a career both in painting and printmaking at a time when the latter was perceived as a frivolous and popular art.

Michel Melot

Softcover, 96 pages, 59 color ills.

Published by Terra Foundation for American Art and Le Passage, 2005

Bilingual French / English edition

Out of print

Since the United States was founded in the late eighteenth century, the formation of an artistic identity has been a crucial issue for the nation. This French-language volume emerged from the 2003 international symposium “L’indépendance de l’art américain,” organized by the Musée du Louvre and the Musée d’Art Américain (Musée des Impressionismes) Giverny. It traces the history from the nineteenth-century Hudson River school to the twentieth century, as well as the rise of the New York school, pop art, minimalism, hyperrealism, and conceptual art.

Edited by Veerle Thielemans and Matthias Waschek, with essays by Timothy Barringer, Gavin Butt, Éric de Chassey, Annie Cohen-Solal, Wanda M. Corn, Neil Harris, Anne Hoormann, Olivier Meslay, Christine Savinel, and Allan Wallach.

Softcover, 192 p., 120 color ill.

Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, Musée du Louvre Éditions, and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2005

French-language edition

Out of print

This volume catalogues a past exhibition at the Terra Museum of American Art (currently Musée des Impressionismes Givery) entitled Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New. This exhibition and its accompanying volume constitute the first survey of early American modernist works created by Chicago artists. It focuses on the rich body of artistic work produced during the city’s artistic “golden age,” the period from the 1893 Exposition through the end of World War II.

The essays inside explore how Chicago painters created a niche for themselves in the transformative international art movements—from the impressionism of the 1800s to the social realism and surrealism of the 1930s and 1940s—and forged a regional consciousness through experimental means. This catalogue examines the larger issues and concerns that shaped art in Chicago during this period and offers a new and valuable addition to regional American art scholarship.

Edited by Elizabeth Kennedy, with essays by Wendy Greenhouse, Daniel Schulman, and Susan S. Weininger

Softcover, 176 p., 133 color ill., 17 b. & w. ill.

Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2004.

$40, available through The University of Chicago Press.

Through eight essays by scholars and artists from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States and a conversation between artists, this volume provides a resource for thinking critically about the historical, imperial, and environmental information that can be gleaned from looking closely at landscape paintings. It also presents a comparative history of landscape painting in Australia and the United States through recent considerations of the Anthropocene, arguing that careful and deep analysis of specific nineteenth-century artworks reveals issues of environmental concern both past and present.

This volume accompanies the symposia organized by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne, and the Terra Foundation for American Art in conjunction with Terra Collection Initiative exhibition Continental Shift: Nineteenth-Century American and Australian Landscape Painting.

Edited by Richard Read and Kenneth Haltman, with a foreword by Peter John Brownlee.

Softcover, 280 pages, 77 color plates

Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2020.

$24.95, available through The University of Chicago Press.

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC-USP) and the Terra Foundation for American Art. The essays explore the influence of artist and printmaker Stanley William Hayter on the evolution of printmaking in the United States and Brazil during the first half of the twentieth century.

Edited by Carolina Rossetti de Toledo, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães and Peter John Brownlee, with contributions by Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, Ann Shafer, Carolina Rossetti de Toledo, Christina Weyl, Claudio Mubarac, Heloísa Espada, Peter John Brownlee, Priscila Sacchettin, Ruth Fine, and Silvia Dolinko.
226 pages, color ills.

Published by the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2019.

Available in English as an e-book from the Universidade de São Paulo.

Available in Portuguese, as Atelier 17 e a gravura moderna nas Américas, from the Portal de Livros Albertos da USP.

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative organized by the Shanghai Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Pathways to Modernism examines how American art became modern during the eighty-year period between 1865 and 1945, when the United States evolved from an agrarian society into an industrial nation. This period was punctuated by conflict, from the American Civil War of the 1860s to the two World Wars of the twentieth century, but it was also a period of national expansion and technological innovation that witnessed a flourishing in the arts. This volume explores the development of modern American art, as artists engaged with the political, economic, and cultural developments that transformed American society.

Shanghai bo wu guan, Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue Essays, Texts and Entries by Sarah Kelly Oehler, Peter John Brownlee, and Taylor L. Poulin

Softcover, 200 pages, 80 color ills.

Published by the Shanghai Museum with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018.

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology and the Terra Foundation for American Art. It looks at a relatively unknown pattern that appears in interwar American art, which focuses on the artists who grappled with the experience of the modern United States with a cool, controlled detachment. In three essays, the author argues that this treatment could reflect ambivalence and anxiety about the modern world, or instead serve as an expression of optimism and pride.

Edited by Katherine M. Bourguignon with essays by Lauren Kroiz and Leo G. Mazow

Softcover, 184 pages, color ills.

Published by Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology–University of Oxford with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018

Available through the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology

This volume accompanies Continental Shift: Nineteenth Century American and Australian Landscape Painting, the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the University of Western Australia, and University of Melbourne’s Ian Potter Museum of Art. This volume explores the political, economic and cultural aspirations revealed by artistic representations of the land in Australian and American art during the nineteenth century. By comparing Australian and American approaches, it references notions of the sublime and tensions between rural and urban landscapes to enable reflections on national identity in colonized land. These works also reflect the characteristics of nineteenth century colonial exploration in the depiction of race, class, and power.

Edited by Meighen Katz
Softcover, 90 pages, color ills.
Published by Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2017.

Available as an e-book from the Ian Potter Museum of Art

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by The Phillips Collection; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Venice; and the Terra Foundation for American Art. The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase, one of the influential artists and educators of the United States. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide range of subjects in oil and pastel, including figures, landscapes, urban park scenes, interiors. A century after his death, the breadth and richness of Chase’s career are celebrated in this illustrated publication.

Elsa Smithgall, Erica E. Hirshler, Katherine M. Bourguignon, Giovanna Ginex, and John Davis

Hardcover, 248 pages, 176 color ill.
Published by The Phillips Collection in association with Yale University Press with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2016

Also available in an Italian-language edition

$60, available through Yale University Press

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Picturing the Americas offers the first comprehensive treatment of the genre of the pictorial landscape on throughout the American continents, bringing into dialogue the landscape traditions of artists practicing between 1840 and 1940.

This exhibition catalogue contains 260 color images and essays by leading scholars that offer a Pan-American perspective on these traditions. The essays consider the emergence of modernism, as well as how the development of landscape imagery reflects the intricately intertwined geographies and sociopolitical histories of the peoples, nations, regions, and diasporas of the two continents.

Edited by Peter John Brownlee, Valéria Piccoli, and Georgiana Uhlyarik.

Hardcover, 280 pages, 260 color illus.

Co-published by Yale University Press and Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, with the support of the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2015

Also available in a Portuguese- and Spanish-language edition

$65, English edition available through Yale University Press.

For subscribers in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom, the volume is featured on the Art & Architecture ePortal.

American Encounters is a Terra Collection Initiative consisting of four focused exhibitions organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, High Museum of Art, Musée du Louvre, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. These exhibitions investigate four key genres in nineteenth-century American art: landscape, genre, portraiture, and still life.

American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life

This fourth and final volume of the American Encounters series addresses still life as it celebrates the commonplace. Drawing examples from American and French museums, this catalogue traces the development of American still life painting in the nineteenth century and its European precedents.

Stephanie Mayer Heydt

Softcover, 68 pages, 25 color ill.

Published by University of Washington Press with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2015

Also available in a French-language edition

Available through University of Washington Press ($24.95)

American Encounters: Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution

This third volume of the American Encounters series addresses artists’ conceptions of political and military authority through portraiture during and after North American and European revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Kevin Murphy

Softcover, 80 pages, 30 color ill.

Published by University of Washington Press with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2014

Also available in a French-language edition

Available through University of Washington Press ($24.95)

American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life

This second volume of the American Encounters series addresses genre painting which flourished in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century. In these essays, two genre paintings from the Dutch and English schools, alongside three American examples, enable the exploration of a variety of interrelated themes.

Peter John Brownlee

Softcover, 68 pages, 30 color ill.

Published by University of Washington Press with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2012

Also available in a French-language edition

Available through University of Washington Press ($24.95)

Thomas Cole: The Cross in the Wilderness

This first volume of the American Encounters series addresses landscape through Thomas Cole’s The Cross in the Wilderness, in the Musée du Louvre collection since 1975. This painting is the culmination of Cole’s quest to portray a certain type of American landscape—the wilderness, the mythical archetype of grandiose and unspoiled nature.

Guillaume Faroult

Softcover, 64 pages, 31 color ill.

Published by Musée du Louvre Éditions with support from Terra Foundation for American Art, 2012

Also published in a French-language edition

Out of print

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative Terra Collection Initiative exhibition and its multi-year tour to prominent museums across the United States. This collection of essays, carefully drawn from the proceedings of these scholarly sessions, brings together the fresh insights of academics, curators, and conservators, who focus on Samuel F. B. Morse’s (1791–1872) Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33), one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early nineteenth-century American art. Among other aspects, this volume explores the painting’s visual components and its cultural contexts.

Edited by Peter John Brownlee, with essays by Jean-Philippe Antoine, Wendy Bellion, David Bjelajac, Rachael Z. DeLue

Hardcover, 224 pages, 135 color plates

Published by Yale University Press with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2014

Available through Yale University Press ($45)

For subscribers in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom, the volume is featured on the Art & Architecture ePortal.

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the National Galleries of Scotland, the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, the Musée des Impressionisms Giverny, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. This illustrated book focuses on a group of American artists who applied impressionist ideas and techniques to subjects in the United States. The book features more than 60 paintings, some well-known, others less familiar, produced in Europe and the United States.

Edited by Katherine M. Bourguignon, with contributions by Richard R. Brettell and Frances Fowle

160 pages, 120 color ill.

Published by Editions Hazan with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2014

Available through Yale University Press ($40)

Also available in French- and Spanish-language editions

The Terra Foundation and the National Gallery of Art, London, collaborated to bring historical masterworks from the United States to audiences in London through a series of focused exhibitions. These exhibitions collected key artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth century that the United Kingdom had never before seen. These two publications explore two artists showcased in these exhibitions, George Bellows and Frederic Church.

Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch

This volume focuses on Frederic Church, a key member of the Hudson River school and creator of some of the most iconic landscape paintings of the United States. It features some thirty sketches Church executed during his career. Many of these works come from Olana, the artist’s home overlooking the Hudson River.

Andrew Wilton, with contributions by Katherine Bourguignon and Christopher Riopelle

Softcover, 72 pages, 45 color ill.

Published by the National Gallery Company with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2013

Out of print

An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters

This book introduces the artists of the Ashcan school and the key characteristics and themes of their work. Detailed commentaries are provided for twelve significant paintings by George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, and John Sloan, ranging from depictions of the metropolitan throng to Bellows’ vivid seascapes.

David Peters Corbett, with contributions by Katherine Bourguignon and Christopher Riopelle

Softcover, 56 pages, 32 color illus.
Published by National Gallery Company with support from Terra Foundation for American Art, 2011

Available through Yale University Press ($15)

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Accompanying the 2013 exhibition in Wales, it showcases spectacular landscapes and epic stories found within American painting between 1750 and 1967.

America: Painting a Nation includes works by artists such as Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler from the collections across the US: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It contains essays by Angela Miller and Chris McAuliffe, combined with entries on each of the artworks and biographies on each artist.

Chris McAuliffe and Angela L. Miller

Softcover, 262 pages, color illustrations

Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales with support from Terra Foundation for American Art, 2013

Out of print

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Newberry Library and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Published more than 150 years after the outbreak of the civil war at Fort Sumter, these essays examine the visual culture of the Northern home front and the deeply rooted effects the war had on life at this time. Written by scholars from a wide variety of disciplines within the humanities, this volume examines art works from period in time, including the impacts on the cotton economy, why Native Americans on the frontier were pushed out of the nation’s consciousness, and much more.

Peter John Brownlee, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene, and Scott Manning Stevens

Hardcover, 216 pages, 90 color ill.

Published by The University of Chicago Press with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2013

Available through in print The University of Chicago Press ($35) and in PDF ($37.99)

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the National Museum of Korea and the Terra Foundation for American Art, the first major survey of pre-1980 US art shown in South Korea. Art Across America features paintings, decorative arts, and design drawn from four US collections (Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Terra Foundation for American Art).

Edited by Kim Woolim, Kim Jinmyung, and Yang Songhyok.

Softcover, 408 pages, approx. 120 color ills.

Published by National Museum of Korea with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2013.

Bilingual Korean / English edition

Out of print

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo and the Terra Foundation for American Art. This volume showcases a selection of Monet’s paintings in addition to the work of the American artists who would later contribute to the rise of American impressionism.

This exhibition catalogue brings together and provides context for art works by American artists, many unfamiliar to a Japanese audience. The fifty paintings, including numerous works by Claude Monet and other American artists all painted in Giverny are contextualized here in the catalogue, explore the impact of one village on the evolution of impressionism.

Edited by Katherine M. Bourguignon and Shunsuke Kijima

Softcover,192 pages, color ills.

Published by The Nishinippon Shimbun in association with the Terra

Foundation for American Art, 2010

Also published in a Japanese-language edition

Out of print

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. In 1908, a group of eight painters (“the Eight”) led by Robert Henri united together to upend established norms of modernist art and paint urban scenes that marked a significant departure from the prevailing style. Even though they were met with critical success, the predominant narrative maintains that the Eight were rendered dysfunctional and artistically irrelevant after European modernism arrived in the United States in 1913. This volume reevaluates these respected artists’ careers, including their late works.

Edited by Elizabeth Kennedy, with essays by Peter John Brownlee, Elizabeth Kennedy, Leo G. Mazow, Kimberly Orcutt, Judith Hansen O’Toole, Sarah Vure, and Jochen Wierich.

Softcover, 144 pages, 133 color plates

Published by Terra Foundation for American Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, and Milwaukee Art Museum, 2009

Out of print

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Williams College Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art. At the time of his first visit to Italy in 1898, the American artist Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924) was regarded as an up-and-coming talent and was eventually renowned for his cutting-edge impressionist watercolors and experimental monotypes. Beautifully illustrated throughout, and with contributions from a selection of international scholars, Prendergast in Italy is the story not only of this painter’s travels through the land of the Renaissance, but also of the dramatic impact they had on his oeuvre.

Edited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, with essays by Nancy Mowll Mathews and Elizabeth Kennedy

Softcover, 192 pages, 200 color ills.

Published by Merrell Publishers in association with Terra Foundation for American Art and Williams College Museum of Art, 2009

Also published in an Italian-language edition

Out of print

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Loyola University Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Manifest Destiny/Manifest Responsibility: Environmentalism and the Art of the American Landscape traces the evolution of cultural attitudes toward nature and towards the environment in paintings, pastels, and prints made between 1790 and the mid-1960s. Where colonial settlers saw seemingly endless nature and limitless bounty, nineteenth-century Americans explored outlying territories and expanded ways to harness and capitalize on nature’s abundance. This volume reveals the effects of rapid industrialization and increased urbanization, as well as conservation movements, through artwork of this time.

Peter John Brownlee, with contributions by Michael S. Hogue and Angela Miller

Softcover, 56 pages, color ills.

Published by Loyola University Museum of Art in association with Terra Foundation for American Art, 2008

Out of print

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Art in America is an introduction to the major movements in American art, from the Hudson River and Ashcan schools to abstract expressionism and pop art. Divided chronologically into six chapters and covering the period from 1700 to 2007, Art in America features a selection of beautifully reproduced iconic and little-known images and accompanying the 2007 exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Moscow, and Bilbao. It is an exploration of how the cultural, political, ethnic, economic, and natural landscape of America has shaped national identity and consciousness.

Edited by Susan Davidson, with contributions by Susan Cross, Helen Hsu, Patricia Johnston, Elizabeth Kennedy, Jessica Lanier, Anthony W. Lee, Michael Leja, Margaretta M. Lovell, David Lubin, Nancy Mowll Mathews, Robert Rosenblum, Justin Wolff

Hardcover, 352 pages, color plates

Published by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Merrell Publishers, in association with the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007

Also published in Chinese-, Russian- (abbreviated edition), and Spanish-language editions

Out of print

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny (currently the Musée des Impressionismes Giverny) and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Lured by Claude Monet’s presence and the promise of painting en plein air, artists from America and across Europe flocked to the French village of Giverny in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming it to a thriving artists’ community. This volume evokes the longevity of impressionism and highlights the role Giverny played in the movement’s ascendance, placing Giverny in the context of other European artists’ colonies of its era.

Edited by Katherine Bourguignon, with essays by Nina Lübbren, Kathleen Pyne, and Margaret Werth

Softcover, 224 pages, 200 illustrations,

Published by the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007

Also available in a French-language edition

Available through University of Chicago Press ($49)

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Musée du Louvre and the Terra Foundation for American Art. American Artists and the Louvre explores the origins of the artistic exchanges between France and the United States from the eighteenth century onward, and sheds new light on the museum’s long-time role as a free academy for American artists.

Edited by Elizabeth Kennedy and Olivier Meslay, with contributions by Loïs Marie Fink, Elizabeth Kennedy, Olivier Meslay, and Paul Staiti

Softcover, 148 pages, 80 color illustrations.

Published by Musée du Louvre Éditions and Hazan with support from Terra Foundation for American Art, 2006

Also published in a French-language edition

Out of print

This volume accompanies the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition organized by the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny (currently the Musée des Impressionismes Giverny), and the Terra Foundation for American Art. It organizes Winslow Homer’s sea-centered works by four periods that correspond to geographic locations: Gloucester, Massachusetts and other early East Coast seascapes; Cullercoats, England; Prout’s Neck in Maine; and notations from his trips to tropical regions such as the Bahamas and fishing retreats such as the Adirondacks in New York. Essays by European and American scholars reevaluate these examples of American realism, highlighting their modernity and setting Homer apart from his contemporaries.

Edited by Sophie Lévy, with essays by Eric Shanes, Marc Simpson and Judith Walsh

Softcover, 152 pages, 100 color ill.,

Published by Terra Foundation for American Art and The Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2006

Also available in a French-language edition

Available through The University of Chicago Press ($45)

Hot Art, Cold War: Northern and Western European Writing on American Art, 1945–1990, and its companion volume, Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art, 1945–1990, are two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources. They offer the reader a unique opportunity to compare how European art writers introduced and explained contemporary American art to their many and varied audiences. Translated into English from the 25 different languages represented, these ground-breaking publications significantly enrich the fields of American art studies and European art criticism.

Hot Art, Cold War: Northern and Western European Writing on American Art, 1945–1990

Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte and Claudia Hopkins.

Hardcover, 584 pages, 40 color ill.

Published by Routledge with support from Terra Foundation for American Art, 2020.

Hardback ($245) and paperback ($52.95) available through Routledge.

E-book also available ($47.65)

Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art, 1945–1990

Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte and Claudia Hopkins.

Hardcover, 712 pages, 44 color ill.

Published by Routledge with support from Terra Foundation for American Art, 2020.

Hardback ($245) available through Routledge.

E-book also available ($47.65)

Part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s Art Design Chicago initiative, which brought major arts events to venues throughout Chicago in 2018, Art in Chicago is a landmark publication that will be the standard account of Chicago art for decades to come.

This first single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago is a magisterial account that recognizes the complexity of the story it tells and doesn’t follow a single continuous trajectory. From the rupture of the Great Fire in 1871 to the present; Manierre Dawson, László Moholy-Nagy, and Ivan Albright to Chris Ware, Anne Wilson, and Theaster Gates, it presents an overlapping sequence of interrelated narratives that together tell a full and nuanced, yet wholly accessible history of visual art in the city. The six chapters written by different experts make an unprecedently inclusive and rich tapestry that will surprise and enlighten even the most dedicated fan of the city’s artistic heritage.

Edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino.

Hardcover, 448 pages, 160 color ill., 29 halftones

Published by The University of Chicago Press with support from Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018.

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