Corcoran Gallery of Art: Pre-1945 American Paintings Collection Catalogue

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. The collection includes a remarkable number of iconic works in all genres of American painting from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

It also boasts outstanding breadth and depth in Hudson River School painting, nineteenth-century portraiture and genre painting, American Impressionism, and early twentieth century realism.

This fully-illustrated publication includes an introductory essay by Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran Sarah Cash, that will serve as the comprehensive examination of the Corcoran's long and illustrious history of collecting and supporting American art.