# In American Waters: The Sea in American Painting - Hardcover

by **Daniel Finamore** (Editor), **Austen Barron Bailly** (Editor)

_In American Waters_ is the catalog of an exhibition co-organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

The exhibition and this associated catalog invite visitors to discover the sea as an expansive way to reflect on American culture and environment, learn how coastal and maritime symbols moved inland across the United States, and question what it means to be "in American waters." Work by Georgia O'Keeffe, Amy Sherald, Kay WalkingStick, Norman Rockwell, Hale Woodruff, Paul Cadmus, Thomas Hart Benton, Jacob Lawrence, Valerie Hegarty, Stuart Davis, and many others is included, along with essays from scholars, critics, and the curators.

### Author Biography

Austen Barron Bailly is chief curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Daniel Finamore is the Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 11.26 x 9.84 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** May 28, 2021

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