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American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

O'Leary, Elizabeth, Yount, Sylvia, Rawles, Susan J., Curry, David Park

With this publication, produced in conjunction with the largest expansion in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the full scope of the museum’s outstanding...

Southern Built

American Architecture, Regional Practice
Bishir, Catherine W.

A leader in the fields of both regional architectural history and historic preservation, Catherine Bishir has collected essays covering three decades into one volume. Just as...

Carolina Cottage

A Personal History of the Piazza House
Little, Margaret Ruth

Margaret Ruth Little’s new book is a celebration and a history of one of the most recognizable vernacular house types in the Upper South, the Carolina cottage. The one-and-one-...

Enigmatic Stream

Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River
Sexton, Richard

As it churns toward its terminus in southeastern Louisiana, the Mississippi River becomes a wide, muddy superhighway of activity, matched in might only by the megastructures of...

Analogy and Design

Ponsi, Andrea

Analogical thought is fundamental to creativity. The use of analogy can help to solve problems, make connections between disciplines, and use those relations to form original...

Josephine Crawford

An Artist’s Vision
Hoffman, Louise C.

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Boston Furniture, 1700-1900

Jobe, Brock, Ward, Gerald W. R.

New Perspectives on Boston Furniture gathers together nineteen essays first delivered at the Winterthur Museum’s 2013 Furniture Forum. It amply illustrates how research...

Drawn to Life

Al Hirschfeld and the Theater of Tennessee Williams
Cave, Mark, Leopold, David

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Buildings of Virginia

Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest
Lee, Anne Carter

Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful mountaintops and scrubby lowlands, luxuriantly...

Buildings of Arkansas

Sutherland, Cyrus

From Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Hot Springs to Jonesboro, El Dorado, Arkadelphia, Texarkana, and scores of places in between, the latest volume in the Buildings of the...

Drone Art

Low Altitude Landscapes
Vigour, John

The wide-angle aerial photographs collected here display the Commonwealth’s beauty as never seen before. Shot using a camera on a bird-sized model helicopter, these panoramic...

American Autopia

An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury
Esperdy, Gabrielle

Early to mid-twentieth-century America was the heyday of a car culture that has been called an "automobile utopia." In American Autopia, Gabrielle Esperdy examines how the...

Buildings of Delaware

Maynard, W. Barksdale

The latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' prestigious Buildings of the United States series, Buildings of Delaware is the first book to document the state's...

Dream House

An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House
Tutter, Adele

Famous for its transparency, the Philip Johnson Glass House--the icon of modernism that Vincent Scully called "the most conceptually important house of the century"--has...

Vaudechamp in New Orleans

Rudolph, William Keyse

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Fish Town

Down the Road to Louisiana's Vanishing Fishing Communities
Blatty, J. T.

Fish Town is an inspired documentary project focused on preserving, through photography and oral history recordings, the cultural and environmental remains of...

Private Passion, Public Promise

The James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Collection of American Art
Yount, Sylvia

"We have spent the last decade immersed in the world of American art, never suspecting early on that our desire to learn and appreciate this legacy could result in so...

Rockbridge County Artists and Artisans

Crawford, Barbara, Lyle, Royster, Jr.

In Rockbridge County Artists & Artisans, Barbara Crawford and Royster Lyle, Jr., trace the development of many artisans' activities in Rockbridge County - in fine...

A Noble Pursuit

English Silver from the Rita Gans Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Hartop, Christopher

In 1997 Rita Gans generously gave the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts an outstanding array of English silver from the collection she and her late husband, Jerome, had amassed over...

Unfinished Blues

Memories of a New Orleans Music Man
Battiste, Harold R.

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Selections

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Barriault, Anne

Spanning more than five thousand years and representing a significant array of world cultures, this extensively updated, beautifully reproduced volume showcases masterworks of...

First in the Homes of His Countrymen

George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination
Brandt, Lydia Mattice

Over the past two hundred years, Americans have reproduced George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation house more often, and in a greater variety of media, than any of their...