Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Bowron, Edgar Peters.
2. Bruce Museum.
3. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Description

1. xii, 159 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 32 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift in memory of Payne Whitney.

Subject

1. Dogs in art > Exhibitions

Contents

1. An artist's best friend: the dog in Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture / Edgar Peters Bowron -- From the royal hunt to the taxidermist: a dog's history of modern art / Robert Rosenblum -- The purebred dog in art: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / William Secord -- Notes on the nature of dogs / Carolyn Rose Rebbert.

Call number

1. JQG 06-825

Note

1. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held in the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Conn. May 6-Aug. 27, 2006, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 1, 2006-Jan. 1, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index.

Title

1. Best in show : the dog in art from the Renaissance to today / Edgar Peters Bowron ... [et al.].

Imprint

1. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press ; Houston : In association with The Museum of Fine Arts ; Greenwich : Bruce Museum, c2006.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents
2. Contributor biographical information
3. Publisher description

Added author

1. Bowron, Edgar Peters.
2. Bruce Museum.
3. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

LCCN

1. 2006009074

Other standard identifier

1. 9780300115888
2. 9780890901434

ISBN

1. 0300115881 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2. 0890901430 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. JQG 06-825