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Includes bibliographical references and index, "Volume Two: This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculptors including Paul Wayland Bartlett, Adolph Alexander Weinman, Bessie Potter Vannoh, and James Earle Fraser."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and held there from Sept. 19, 2000 to Jan. 7, 2001, "Checklist of the exhibition": p. [575]-598, Maps on lining papers, Includes bibliographical references (p. [599]-617) and index, Inventing the metropolis : civilization and urbanity in Antebellum New York / Dell Upton -- Mapping the venues : New York City art exhibitions / Carrie Rebora Barratt -- Private collectors and public spirit : a selective view / John K. Howat -- Selling the sublime and the beautiful : New York landscape painting and tourism / Kevin J. Avery -- Modeling a reputation : the American sculptor and New York City / Thayer Tolles -- Building the empire city : architects and architecture / Morrison H. Heckscher -- The currency of culture : prints in New York City / Elliot Bostwick Davis -- "A palace for the sun" : early photography in New York City / Jeff L. Rosenheim -- "Ahead of the world" : New York City fashion / Caroline Rennolds Milbank -- The products of empire : shopping for home decorations in New York City / Amelia Peck -- "Gorgeous articles of furniture" : cabinetmaking in the empire city / Catherine Hoover Voorsanger -- Empire city entrepreneurs : ceramics and glass in New York City /rAlice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- "Silver ware and great perfection" : the precious-metals trades in New York City / Deborah Dependahl Waters, Exhibition title: Art and the empire city

Includes bibliographical references and index, "Volume One: This volume catalogues the distinguished and comprehensive collection of approximately 400 works of American sculpture by artists born before 1865. This publication includes an introduction on the history of the collection's formation, particularly in the context of the Museum's early years of acquisitions, and discusses the outstanding personalities involved."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website