Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exhibition

San Francisco and Oakland, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; University of California Press, 2015. 399 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, from October 17, 2015 to January 10, 2016. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Timed with the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) of 1915, Jewel City presents a large and representative selection of artworks from the fair, emphasizing the variety of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints that greeted attendees. It is unique in its focus on the works of art that were scattered among the venues of the exposition--the most comprehensive art exhibition ever shown on the West Coast. Notably, the PPIE included the first American presentations of Italian Futurism, Austrian Expressionism, and Hungarian avant-garde painting, and there were also major displays of paintings by prominent Americans, especially those working in the Impressionist style. This lavishly illustrated catalogue features works by masters such as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Paul C zanne, Robert Henri, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Umberto Boccioni, and many more. The volume also explores the PPIE's distinctive murals program, developments in the art of printmaking, and the legacy of the French Pavilion, which hosted an abundance of works by Auguste Rodin and inspired the founding and architecture of the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. A rich and fascinating study of a critical moment in American and European art history, Jewel City is indispensable for understanding both the United States' and California's role in the reception of modernism as well as the region's historical place on the international art stage." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: 'A beautiful jewel set in the turquoise of the sea', by James A. Ganz; Gem of the golden age of world's fairs, by Laura Ackley; The power of beauty: Bernard Maybeck's Palace of Fine Arts, by Victoria Kastner; The classical ideal in the Athens of the West, by Rene e Dreyfus; Harmony and discord in the murals at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Anthony W. Lee; 'A pageant of American art': constructing nation and empire at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Emma Acker; Jewels of light and color: American artists and impressionism at the fair, by Scott A. Shields; 'Progressing along normal, wholesome lines': modern American painting in the Palace of Fine Arts; Heidi Applegate; Prints at the fair, by Colleen Terry; Gallery 34: contemporary color prints at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Karin Breuer; Exposing photography at the exposition, by James A. Ganz; The French pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Martin Chapman; French paintings at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition: a triumph of diplomacy, by Melissa Buron; A debut of Hungarian art in America, by Gergely Barki.. Paperback. NEW. 4to. Collectible.