[PDF] American Paintings eBook

Author : Alton Everette James
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Painting, American
ISBN : 9781574324310

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In this comprehensive book with more than 300 photographs and more than 450 illustrations, he outlines the necessary steps in selecting a painting, authenticating a painting, determining a value, acquiring a painting at auction, and evaluating the condition of a piece. Both major and minor artists are briefly discussed, and overviews of Impressionism, Tonalism, The Aschan School, African-American and Southern Women artists, and contemporary folk art are presented. There are even tips on managing your art collection, the realities of funding and financing, and collecting what you can afford. The beauty of American art is evident in this collector's guide -- a must-have for collectors of American paintings and collectors of art in general.

Author : Barnes Foundation
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN :

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This catalogue is the first publication of the Barnes Foundation's collection of over three hundred American works of art, including a treasury of important early-twentieth-century paintings by William J. Glackens, Maurice and Charles Prendergast, Charles Demuth, Alfred H. Maurer, Ernest Lawson, Horace Pippin, Marsden Hartley, Jules Pascin, and many others. Rich with compelling, firsthand accounts of the collector's methods and purpose, this definitive scholarly examination of the American paintings and works on paper assembled by Dr. Albert C. Barnes offers a long overdue exploration of his exceptional achievement.

Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300187335

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Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Andrew Wilton
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691096704

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Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition, a tribute to U.S. landscape painting features more than one hundred works by the Hudson River School artists, complemented by three gatefolds, artist biographies, and essays on American landscape painting in the context of international traditions and national identity. (Fine Arts)

Author : Jeremiah William McCarthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300244282

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Featuring paintings by American icons like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, this book illustrates the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over 200 years.

Author : Elizabeth Johns
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300057546

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American genre painting flourished in the thirty years before the Civil War, a period of rapid social change that followed the election of President Andrew Jackson. It has long been assumed that these paintings--of farmers, western boatmen and trappers, blacks both slave and free, middle-class women, urban urchins, and other everyday folk--served as records of an innocent age, reflecting a Jacksonian optimism and faith in the common man. In this enlightening book Elizabeth Johns presents a different interpretation--arguing that genre paintings had a social function that related in a more significant and less idealistic way to the political and cultural life of the time. Analyzing works by William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, David Gilmore Blythe, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others, Johns reveals the humor and cynicism in the paintings and places them in the context of stories about the American character that appeared in sources ranging from almanacs and newspapers to joke books and political caricature. She compares the productions of American painters with those of earlier Dutch, English, and French genre artists, showing the distinctive interests of American viewers. Arguing that art is socially constructed to meet the interests of its patrons and viewers, she demonstrates that the audience for American genre paintings consisted of New Yorkers with a highly developed ambition for political and social leadership, who enjoyed setting up citizens of the new democracy as targets of satire or condescension to satisfy their need for superiority. It was this network of social hierarchies and prejudices--and not a blissful celebration of American democracy--that informed the look and the richly ambiguous content of genre painting.

Author : Frank Maresca
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
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Cent peintres autodidactes américains du vingtième siècle - incluant Victor Duena, la Soeur Gertrude Morgan, Henry Darger et Freddie Brice, avec 260 reproductions toutes en couleurs de leurs oeuvres.

Author : Charles Marion Russell
Publisher : Abbeville Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Here in these pages, 73 of Russell's paintings from the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, are splendidly reproduced and accompanied by the descriptive and illuminating commentaries of art critic Louis Chapin.

Author : Esmée Quodbach
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2020-11
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ISBN : 9780271086088

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A collection of essays by twelve scholars and museum curators examining the allure of Flemish painting to Americans over the past centuries, chronicling the roles played by determined individuals in forming private and public collections.