By Marc Simpson. At The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
This examines the Rockefeller collection in depth, focusing on 140 works donated to The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The works reproduced include examples from America's foremost realist masters including John Singleton Copley, Charles Wilson Peale, Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Edward Hicks, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, Charles Yardley Turner and others. Text covers each work's history and significance. In many cases, this is the first time these important materials have appeared in print.