Dutch Utopia
American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914

Holly Koons McCullough

Important new scholarship on American artists working in Holland


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Showcasing more than seventy paintings from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914 explores the work of forty-three American artists drawn to Holland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Escaping from the rapid urbanization of their time, these artists established colonies in six communities in the Netherlands—Dordrecht, Egmond, Katwijk, Laren, Rijsoord, and Volendam—with all but Dordrecht being small, preindustrial villages. Inspired by their pastoral surroundings as well as the great traditions of seventeenth-century Dutch art and the contemporary Hague school, these American artists created visions of Dutch society underpinned by a nostalgic yearning for a premodern way of life. Some even alluded to America’s own colonial Dutch heritage, exploring shared histories and cultural connections between the two countries.

Organized by the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, Dutch Utopia examines the appeal of Holland for American artists…

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Distributed for the Telfair Museum of Art

Page count: 288 pp.
Illustrated
Trim size: 9 x 12

Cloth
List price: $59.95
978-0-933075-11-5
9/25/2009
  

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Annette Stott, chief curatorial advisor for the Dutch Utopia project, is a professor of art history and the director of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver, Colorado. She is the author of Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West and Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture, on which the exhibition Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914 is based. She has written extensively about the connections between Dutch and American art of the nineteenth century, and she coedited Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America, 1609-2009. Holly Koons McCullough, organizing curator of Dutch Utopia, is the chief curator of fine arts and exhibitions at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. She specializes in nineteenth- and early–twentieth-century American art. She spearheaded the publication of the Telfair’s first catalog of the collection and has published articles and exhibition catalogs on artists ranging from Frederick Carl Frieseke to Savannah’s Christopher A. D. Murphy.