Sound and Sense

Sound and Sense: Poetic Musings in American Art explores the connections between American poetry and painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. In this special exhibition catalogue, readers will travel through a diverse landscape of the museum's masterpieces. All of the included works incorporate poetic inscriptions in their composition or have direct relationships to America's rich poetic traditions. Featuring art by Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, and Georgia O'Keeffe, and poetry by Herman Melville, Lydia Sigourney, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and William Carlos Williams, this book will appeal to all admirers of literature and art, as well as art historians, social historians, and educators.