Nemerov, Alexander

To make a world : George Ault and 1940s America / Alexander Nemerov - Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum , 2011 - 151 p. : illus. ; 29 cm

Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Mar. 11-Sept. 5, 2011. Exhibition will travel to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO., and Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.

Foreword / by Elizabeth Brown, Acknowledgments, Introduction, To make a world: George Ault and 1940s America, George Ault chronology, List of illustrations

An American painter usually associated with the Precisionist movement, George Copeland Ault created works that provide a unique window on to the uncertainty and despair of the Second World War. This book features nearly twenty of Ault's paintings alongside those of his contemporaries, including Edward Hopper, and Andrew Wyeth.

9780300172393


Ault, George Copeland (1891-1948)


Exhibition Catalogue
Painter---American

PS3566.L27 / C7 1971b

759.13 AUL