This book has long satisfied the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism. It is the definitive study of the subject, filled with information and insight garnered through many years of far-ranging research. All the masterworks are here, from Childe Hassam's sun-drenched gardens to John Twachtman's snow-silenced landscapes, from Edmund ...
Alice Schille (1869-1955) was one of the finest watercolour artists of her time. Born in Columbus, Ohio, she studied art in Paris and New York and was influenced by progressive art movements. Remarkably for a woman in that era she was a world traveller, painting throughout the USA, Europe, North Africa and Latin America. This volume brings ...
Illustrated with sun-drenched Impressionist paintings and with contemporary photographs of Monet's gardens, this book chronicles the much-loved artists' colony at Giverny. The picturesque little village of Giverny, located on the Seine less than an hour's train ride from Paris, attracted 19th-century artists of all nationalities. Monet wasn't the ...
Equally talented in oils, watercolours and prints, Childe Hassam explored rain-swept city scenes, glorious gardens, exquisite women and flag-lined streets. Approaching Hassam (1859-1935) from different angles, the authors of this work reveal facets and aspects of the artist's life.
The warm glow of another era illuminates New York city in this nostalgic tour around the turn-of-the-century metropolis during the heyday of Impressionism. This is another title in the series that includes "Impressionist London"by Eric Shanes. Organised geographically - with chapters on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, Lower Manhattan, Central Park, the ...
Luminous works by Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, John Henry Twachtman, are among the 100 seminal works featured in this book showcasing 27 artists. As members of the first generation of American painters to absorb the technique, brighter palette, and subject matter of Impressionism from their French counterparts, these artists ...
In informative illustrated essays this text traces the great variety of media and forms California artists have engaged as they have moved the still life not just off the table, but off the wall and into three dimensions during the 20th century.
With a handful of wealthy Gold Rush barons as indulgent patrons, an active community of artists appeared in nineteenth-century San Francisco almost overnight. A subculture of artistic brilliance and social experimentation was the result--in essence, a decades-long revelry that finally ended with the 1906 earthquake. Witness Jules Tavernier, hungry ...
Frank Benson's masterpiece paintings of turn-of-the-century American society, New England's ports and country, and wildlife and sporting subjects, are among the most popular American works of art. His sparkling plein air painting of young women in white dresses are widely reproduced and his etchings and sporting paintings are generally considered ...
A full colour illustrated collection of California Impressionism paintings. Gerdts explores the context of California Impressionism and surveys the exhibitions in America and the critical responses to the art and the artists. South supplies a narrative of the movement from its innovations in the late 1800s to the final days in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Institute's 75th anniversary is the occasion for this compendium of 120 works from the museum's distinguished collection of American art. An interpretative essay accompanies each fully illustrated work. Featured artists constitute a broad spectrum from the colonial period on, among them Gilbert Stuart, Martin Johnson Heade, Mary Cassat and ...
This landmark book, the first major study of one of America's eminent Impressionists, examines the life and work of Theodore Clement Steele. The 38 superb color reproductions -- many never reproduced before -- capture the poetic and masterfully executed images that reveal the universality of "beauty, harmony and order." A master of light and dark, ...
A beautiful book that treats an important and previously unexplored chapter in the history of Minnesota art, Minnesota Impressionists examines Impressionist pictures painted in Minnesota from both a local and national perspective. The period covered is pre-1940. Twenty-seven Minnesota artists including Nicholas Brewer, Elisabeth Chant, Edwin Dawes ...
This reference work covers American still-life painting from the beginning of the 19th century, when it became a well-known medium of expression, to the mid-20th century. Among the artists Gerdts analyzes are those who worked with still life extensively and those who painted them only occasionally, including the Peales, Severin Roesen, Samuel ...
In the 1930s and 1940s, along with other members of a loosely affiliated group of artists known as the Dallas Nine, Jerry Bywaters pioneered the style later termed "Lone Star Regionalism." Working with equal ability in oil, watercolor, tempera, and pastel, Bywaters portrayed the natural world, towns, and people of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, ...
This is a lavish portfolio of the works of impressionist Colin Campbell Cooper. Colin Campbell Cooper's (1858-1937) life was defined by two very distinct periods: the first was his education and maturation as an East Coast artist, the second came with his relocation to the West Coast of America. During his early career on the East Coast, Cooper ...
Featuring artists and professionals who worked outside America's three main cities - Boston, Philadelphia and New York - by 1920, this work chronicles the development of painting in cities and towns. It examines such issues as the evolution of art education, patronage and exhibition.
Published in association with the Laguna Art Museum, this volume of finely reproduced paintings features the work of nine "California Impressionists": William Wendt, Franz Bischoff, Maurice Braun, Granville Redmond, Donna Schuster, Guy Rose, Joseph Kleitsch, Alson Calrk, and Edgar Payne, plus essays that discuss the distinctive art of ...
With over 800 artists represented by over 1,000 illustrations, the three volumes of Art Across America chronicle the development of painting in cities and towns from their beginnings to 1920. This monumental study is a landmark of scholarship, a revelation of the creative spirit that has flourished throughout this country. Three volumes, slipcased ...
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