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Celebrating Florida: Works of Art from the Vickers Collection (Florida Sesquicentennial)
Celebrating Florida Works of Art from the Vickers Collection - Florida Sesquicentennial Celebrating Florida presents for the first time a full-color collection of 66 important paintings, drawings, and prints of Florida-based art. Featuring such artists as Winslow Homer, Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Inness, William Glackens, Martin Johnson Heade, Frank Shapleigh, and Herman Herzog, the book highlights some of the world's most si... more »gnificant artists, who came to Florida from 1823 to 1950 to capture the Sunshine State. Essays by noted historians Wendell Garrett and Erik Robinson discuss the settlement of Florida and its birth as a state in 1845. Additional essays present an aesthetic, historical, social, and cultural overview of the significance of the art as well as biographical information about each artist. Celebrating Florida is a Sesquicentennial publication, part of the celebration of 150 years of Florida statehood.« less