{"product_id":"celebrating-florida-works-of-art-from-the-vickers-collection-9780813068886","title":"Celebrating Florida: Works of Art from the Vickers Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA full-color collection of important paintings, drawings, and prints\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCelebrating Florida: Works\u003cbr\u003eof Art from the Vickers Collection\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates in full color a generous selection of\u003cbr\u003epaintings, drawings, and prints by some of the world's most significant artists\u003cbr\u003ewho came to Florida from 1823 to 1950 to capture the \"Sunshine State.\"  This book includes works by George\u003cbr\u003eCope, William Glackens, Jane Peterson, Martin Johnson Heade, Herman Herzog, \u003cbr\u003eWinslow Homer, George Inness, Frank Shapleigh, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Arrah Lee\u003cbr\u003eGaul, and William Aiken Walker. Essays on each artist present an aesthetic, \u003cbr\u003ehistorical, social, and cultural overview designed to illuminate the\u003cbr\u003esignificance of the works of art presented. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Featuring\u003cbr\u003eessays by Erik Robinson, former historian at the Museum of Florida History, \u003cbr\u003eTallahassee, and the late Wendell Garrett, former editor of Antiques magazine, \u003cbr\u003eand Nicolai Cikovsky, former curator of American and British painting at the\u003cbr\u003eNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., this volume helps to situate\u003cbr\u003eindividual works in Florida's past. Their essays discuss Florida's history, explore\u003cbr\u003eits society and statehood in 1845, and introduce the Vickers Collection. The new\u003cbr\u003epreface in this paperback edition refreshes readers on the importance of this\u003cbr\u003ecollection. In highlighting and contextualizing these influential works, \u003ci\u003eCelebrating Florida\u003c\/i\u003e places them within\u003cbr\u003ethe mainstream of American art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389233467666,"sku":"9780813068886","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a72d27b-2001-42b8-be52-da64ffdc2f7b.jpg?v=1728918071","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/celebrating-florida-works-of-art-from-the-vickers-collection-9780813068886","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}