• Titel: America and the Sea : treasures from the collections of Mystic Seaport
  • Beteiligt: Lash, Stephen S. [ Sonstiges ] ; Finamore, Daniel [ Sonstiges ]
  • Körperschaften: Mystic Seaport Museum
  • Erschienen: New Haven [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, c 2005
  • Ausgabe: 1. ed
  • Umfang: 159 S, zahlr. Ill
  • ISBN: 0300114028
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: Mystic Seaport Museum ; Katalog ; USA ; Kunst ; Meer Motiv ; Kulturgeschichte ; Kunstsammlung ; Natur
  • Inhalt: Introduction /Stephen S. Lash --Maritime paintings /Daniel Finamore --Photographs /Nicholas Whitman --Ship models /Erik A.R. Ronnberg Jr. --G.W. Blunt White Library /William Fowler --Scrimshaw /Michael McManus --Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library /Llewellyn Howland III --Figureheads /Ryan M. Cooper
    Features a selection of more than two hundred objects from Mystic Seaport that tell the history of America and its maritime heritage. This book explores examples of American folk art - yarn paintings, reverse paintings on glass, sailors' valentines, shadowbox ship models, and ships in bottles, along with watercraft, ship figureheads, and more
  • Medientyp: Buch
  • Datenquelle: UB Heidelberg , Kunstbibliothek - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin