Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the 19th century. This book features ...
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a painter, poet, writer and pioneer of American modernism. Born in Lewiston, Maine, he lived a peripatetic life, working in Paris, Berlin, New York, Mexico, New Mexico, Bermuda, and elsewhere before returning to Maine in 1934. This illustrated reference encompasses the extraordinary range and depth of Hartley's ...
Ralph Earl painted many of the most enduring images of American people and places during the last quarter of the 18th century, yet he has remained one of the least known American painters. This book - the first full-scale investigation of Earl's life and work - gives details of his colourful career, examines his unique patterns of patronage, ...
In der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts entdeckten amerikanische Maler die Vielfalt und Pracht der Neuen Welt. Sie sahen die Wildnis ihrer noch jungen Nation als neuen Garten Eden, dessen Motive ihnen eine Kunst jenseits europaischer Traditionen ermoglichte.
Perhaps the most influential and best loved of all twentieth-century sculptors, Alexander Calder worked primarily in Connecticut for several decades after settling in a Roxbury farmhouse in 1933. Connecticut provided a richly stimulating creative environment for him in the critical years when he developed his unique mobiles and stabiles and ...
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