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American stories : paintings of everyday life, 1765-1915 / Paintings of everyday life, 1765-1915 edited by H. Barbara Weinberg and Carrie Rebora Barratt ; essays by Carrie Rebora Barratt ... [et al.]. - New York : New Haven : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2009. - xviii, 222 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 6, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 28- May 23, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inventing American stories, 1765-1830 / Carrie Rebora Barratt -- Stories for the public, 1830-1860 / Bruce Robertson -- Stories of war and reconciliation, 1860-1877 / Margaret C. Conrads -- Cosmopolitan and candid stories, 1877-1915 / H. Barbara Weinberg.

ISBN: 9781588393364 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc)) 9781588393371 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (pbk.)) 9780300155082 (Yale University Press (hc))

LCCN: 2009026663

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Genre painting, American--Exhibitions.
Manners and customs in art--Exhibitions.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--In art--Exhibitions.

LC Class. No.: ND1451 / .A43 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 754.0973/0747471