{"product_id":"the-color-of-the-moon-lunar-painting-in-american-art-paperback","title":"The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura L. Vookles\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBartholomew F. Bland\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHudson River Museum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eON MY MODERN MET'S TOP TEN LIST OF BEST CREATIVE BOOKS TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOON LANDING\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe moon--its face, color, and power--threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting, holding timeless allure for artists and beloved by viewers of paintings everywhere. The Hudson River Museum has organized \u003ci\u003eThe Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art\u003c\/i\u003e--the first major museum examination of the moon in American visual arts from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries for a 2019 exhibition. This timely presentation also celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission when, in 1969, American astronauts first stepped onto the surface of the moon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the romantic silvery moonscapes of nineteenth-century artists to the abstractions by artists of the twentieth century who explored the moon, the perfect orb, and tapped into its spiritual possibilities, this celestial body, closest to Earth, remains constant in our sky, though our relationship to it and our home planet changes, as technology extends our reach toward space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Hudson River Museum, Fordham University Press, and the James A. Michener Art Museum are joint publishers of the lavishly illustrated catalog \u003ci\u003eThe Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art\u003c\/i\u003e. In engaging essays, author Stella Paul maps the colors of the moon; catalog co-editors Bartholomew F. Bland and Laura Vookles explore Hudson River School and Modernist moonscapes and their cultural resonance; and curators Melissa Martens Yaverbaum and Ted Barrow sight the moon's passage in art of both the Gilded and Space ages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe exhibition and catalog have been made possible by a generous grant by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY February 8 - May 12, 2019\u003cbr\u003eJames A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA June 1 - September 8, 2019\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe moon―its face, color, and power―threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting. The moon holds timeless allure for artists and is beloved by viewers of paintings everywhere. The Hudson River Museum has organized \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art―\u003c\/i\u003ethe first major museum examination of the moon in American visual arts from the 19th through the 20th century. The exhibition, accompanied by a catalog, appears at the Hudson River Museum and the James A. Michener Art Museum in 2019, and its timely presentation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission when, in 1969, American astronauts stepped onto the surface of the moon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Color of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the longing romanticism for this celestial body in the shimmery silver moonscapes of 19th-century artists―Thomas Cole, Father of the Hudson River School, Jasper Cropsey, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Susie M. Barstow, George Inness, Edward Bannister, Ralph Blakelock, Winslow Homer, and Childe Hassam. Scientific inquiry stimulated the thirst for moonlight for the exhibition's 20th-century artists, among them―George Ault, Arthur Dove, Charles Burchfield, Edward Steichen, Oscar Bleumner, Agnes Pelton, Marguerite Zorach, Norman Rockwell, Joseph Cornell, and Jamie Wyeth, who explore abstractions of a full moon as the perfect orb, while tapping into its spiritual possibilities. Other artists show our race toward space, as we cling to our age-old attraction to the chill, distant moon always in our sky. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Hudson River Museum, Fordham University Press, and the Michener Art Museum are joint publishers of the lavishly-illustrated, 200-page catalog, \u003ci\u003eThe Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art. \u003c\/i\u003e In engaging essays author Stella Paul maps the colors of the moon; catalog \u003cbr\u003eco-editors Bartholomew Bland and Laura Vookles explore Hudson River School and Modernist moonscapes and their cultural resonance; and curators Melissa Martens Yaverbaum and Ted Barrow sight the moon's passage and allure in art of the Gilded and Space Ages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe exhibition and catalog have been made possible by a generous grant by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. 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