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	Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery Hardcover, 368pp., 315 color and 65 black-and-white illus. ISBN 978-0-30012-289-3 ISBN-10 0-30012-289-6 Catalogue for the exhibition organized by Helen A. Cooper with Robin Jaffee Frank, and Elisabeth Hodermarsky and Patricia E. Kane, with the assistance of Amy Kurtz Lansing, presented at the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Ky. (September 7, 2008–January 4, 2009); the Seattle Art Museum, Wash. (February 26–May 24, 2009); and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Ala. (October 4, 2009–January 10, 2010). Copublished with Yale University Press. Introduction by David McCullough, with essays by Jon Butler, Joanne B. Freeman, Howard R. Lamar, and Jules David Prown, and contributions by various authors Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery draws upon the Gallery’s renowned collection of American paintings, decorative arts, and prints to explore the American experience from the colonial era to the Gilded Age. This richly illustrated catalogue highlights more than 230 objects—including many long-revered icons of American art by artists such as John Trumbull, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Jeremiah Dummer, Paul Revere, Tiffany & Co., and Eadweard Muybridge—and creates a vivid portrait of a young country defining itself culturally, politically, and geographically. Item# 154 Price $75; Members $60 Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery A paper version of the above is available. ISBN 978-0-89467-966-7 ISBN-10 0-89467-966-X Item# 155 Price $55; Members $44
	Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression 176 pp., illustrated ISBN 0-30010-475-8 Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Kristina Wilson, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (October 5, 2004–June 5, 2005), with essay by Wilson. A fascinating look at how designers in the 1930s mixed avant-garde principles with middle-class taste and marketing savvy to generate a distinctly American streamlined aesthetic. Runner up for the Design History Society Scholarship Prize 2005. Item# 8273 Price $45; Members $36
	Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures Hardcover, 358 pp., 146 color illus. Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Robin Jaffee Frank, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (October 3–December 30, 2000); Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C. (February 10–April 8, 2001); Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. (April 27–July 31, 2001), with essay by Frank. ISBN 0-89467-086-7 A poignant investigation into American private life between 1760 and 1840, this exhibition gathered together more than a hundred portrait miniatures, painted by such renowned figures as Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale. Frank employs these exquisite artifacts as clues to the love and life stories of their owners. “Rediscovering the identities of artists and sitters,” she writes, “and understanding the personal associations that miniatures commemorate, returns to them their power to move us.” Item# 12040 Price $35; Members $28 Sale $25; Members $20