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Tables of Contents for Frames of Reference
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
8
2
Maxwell L. Anderson
Introduction
10
2
Adam D. Weinberg
The Whitney: Biography of an Institution
12
6
LOVE AND STRUGGLE: GERTRUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY
Kennedy Fraser
18
42
VISUAL CONTEXTS FOR AMERICAN ART
John Sloan, The Picnic Grounds
60
2
Kate Rubin
Gaston Lachaise, Standing Woman
62
2
Adam D. Weinberg
Max Weber, Chinese Restaurant
64
2
Kate Rubin
Charles Burchfield, Noontide in Late May
66
2
Kate Rubin
Marsden Hartley, Landscape, New Mexico
68
2
Angela Kramer Murphy
John Storrs, Forms in Space #1
70
2
Beth Venn
Arthur Dove, The Critic
72
2
Beth Venn
Charles Sheeler, Interior
74
2
Kate Rubin
Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother
76
2
Adam D. Weinberg
Gerald Murphy, Cocktail
78
2
Adam D. Weinberg
Elsie Driggs, Pittsburgh
80
2
Kate Rubin
Georgia O'Keeffe, The White Calico Flower
82
2
Angela Kramer Murphy
Charles Sheeler, River Rouge Plant
84
2
Angela Kramer Murphy
Grant Wood, Study for Breaking the Prairie
86
28
Kathryn Potts
AMERICAN ICONS INTERPRETED
Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge
114
12
Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
115
4
Henry Petroski
119
3
John You
122
4
William J. Glackens, Hammerstein's Roof Garden
126
10
Kathryn Harrison
127
3
Lewis Erenberg
130
3
Brendan Gill
133
3
Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
136
10
Alfred Kazin
137
3
Alan M. Dershowitz
140
3
Frances K. Pohl
143
3
George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo
146
12
Elliott J. Gorn
147
5
George Plimpton
152
2
Marianne Doezema
154
4
Charles Demuth, My Egypt
158
10
Karal Ann Marling
159
3
Lisa Mahar
162
3
Maurice Berger
165
3
Alexander Calder, Calder's Circus
168
Howard Gardner
169
3
Robert Wilson
172
1
Neil Harris
173
Raphael Soyer, Office Girls
88
2
Kathryn Potts
Reginald Marsh, Twenty Cent Movie
90
2
Adam D. Weinberg
Burgoyne Diller, First Theme
92
2
Naomi Urabe
Man Ray, La Fortune
94
2
Beth Venn
Philip Evergood, Lily and the Sparrows
96
2
Angela Kramer Murphy
Theodore Roszak, Bi-Polar in Red
98
2
Beth Venn
Andrew Wyeth, Winter Fields
100
2
Adam D. Weinberg
Richard Pousette-Dart, Within the Room
102
2
Adam D. Weinberg
Jacob Lawrence, War Series: Another Patrol
104
2
Beth Venn
Thomas Hart Benton, Poker Night
106
2
Kathryn Potts
Edward Hopper, Seven A.M.
108
2
Angela Kramer Murphy
Stuart Davis, Owh! in San Pao
110
66
Angela Kramer Murphy
Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning
176
10
John Updike
177
3
Robert Adams
180
2
Brian O'Doherty
182
4
Georgia O'Keeffe, Summer Days
186
10
Kathleen Norris
187
2
Anne M. Wagner
189
4
Sarah Whitaker Peters
193
3
Elie Nadelman, Tango
196
8
Richard Martin
197
3
Martin Puryear
200
2
Henry Glassie
202
2
Marsden Hartley, Painting, Number 5
204
10
Peter Gay
205
3
Charles Eldredge
208
3
Patricia McDonnell
211
3
Acknowledgments
214
2
Beth Venn
Adam D. Weinberg
Notes on the Contributors
216