"A Bicentennial exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, shown from March 16 to September 26, 1976."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Sponsor's introduction / David Rockefeller -- Foreword / Tom Armstrong -- Aboriginal art / Norman Feder -- Images of a nation in wood, marble and bronze: American sculpture from 1776 to 1900 / Wayne Craven -- The innocent eye: American folk sculpture / Tom Armstrong -- Statues to sculpture: from the nineties to the thirties / Daniel Robbins -- Magician's game: decades of transformation, 1930-1950 / Rosalind E. Krauss -- Two decades of American sculpture: a survey / Barbara Haskell -- Shared space: contemporary sculpture and its environment / Marcia Tucker -- Selected bibliography / Libby W. Seaberg -- Artists' biographies and bibliographies / Libby W. Seaberg ; assisted by Cherene Holland.