BOOKS
Learn about new publications in the decorative arts field in these articles from our member magazine, The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust. Please feel free to contact the Trust to feature your upcoming books.
American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World
Trust members based in Houston may well be already familiar with the highly praised show from whence this publication takes its name, wherein West’s The Death of General Wolfe and Copley’s Watson and the Shark were exhibited together for the first time.
Book Review: Samuel F.B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention
As the centerpiece of a nationwide travelling exhibit scheduled from 2015 through 2018, Morse’s narrative painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33) has come to be regarded as part of the canon of early-19th-century American art. This catalogue presents essays discussing both the painting’s content