(Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA:
February 27 - April 26, 1998;
Berry-Hill Galleries:
May 9 - June 26, 1998)

A selection of nineteenth century American still lifes from the personal collection of art historian and art collector, William H. Gerdts, and his wife, Abigail Booth Gerdts. "[The painters of these pictures] found truthful beauty in the most humble forms: ...in small, loving depictions of a single piece of fruit, a dead bird, or a bunch of dried leaves." (William H. Gerdts).

Soft Cover; 8 1/2"x 11"; 104 pages; 101 illustrations (21 in color)
Price: $20
Introduction by William H. Gerdts; Catalogue by Susan Danly and Bruce Weber

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