The Civil War and American Art
The Civil War and American Art

Author: Eleanor Jones Harvey

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2012-12-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 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.

American Paintings in the Toledo Museum of Art
American Paintings in the Toledo Museum of Art

Author: Susan E. Strickler

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 1990-12-21

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780271002705

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This fully illustrated catalogue is the first complete record of this well-known collection. Scholarly documentation of 277 works presents most of the principal artists and stylistic currents in American painting from the mid-18th century to the present. Artists such as Thomas Cole, Sanford Gifford, Ralph Blakelock, William Merritt Chase, and Childe Hassam are represented by paintings considered to be among their finest works. Included are many works of outstanding merit in oil, watercolor, tempera, and pastel. The text section provides a separate entry for each painting, including a biography of the artist, physical data, listings of provenance and exhibitions, and a full bibliography. Brief critical commentaries on attribution, iconography, dating, and other topics are also included. An introduction by WIlliam Hutton, the Museum's Senior Curator, surveys the collection's seventy-five-year development, showing the importance attached to American art in the Museum's early days and the more recent expansion of the collection in which paintings from the 19th century and since 1945 have been added.

Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole

Author: Annette Blaugrund

Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1580934625

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At the height of his career as the leader of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting, Thomas Cole listed himself in the New York City Directory as an architect. Why would this renowned painter, who had never before designed a building, advertise himself as such? The importance of Cole’s paintings and the significance of his essays, poems, and philosophy are well established, yet an analysis of his architectural endeavors and their impact on his painting has not been undertaken—until now. In celebration of the recreation of the artist’s self-designed Italianate studio at Cedar Grove in Catskill, New York, now the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, this book focuses on Cole’s architectural interests through architectural elements found in his paintings and drawings as well as in his realized and visionary projects, expanding our understanding of the breadth of his talents and interests. An essay by noted art historian Annette Blaugrund and a contribution by Franklin Kelly, illustrated with Cole’s famous works, sketches, and architectural renderings, reveal an unexplored, yet fascinating, aspect of the career of this beloved artist—and thus, a crucial moment in the development of the Hudson River School and American art. Published to coincide with the exhibition “Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect” at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and travelling to the Columbus Art Museum, the book adds a new dimension to scholarship on the artist.

The Prints of Paul Klee
The Prints of Paul Klee

Author: James Thrall Soby

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789491819001

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Paul Klee, the Swiss German painter influenced by expressionism, cubism and surrealism, also produced a number of etchings in his early years, beginning in 1903. These works, remarkable for their technical proficiency, illustrate his evolution from a traditionalist to one of modern art's most daring masters. Previously published in 1945 and 1947, this third revised edition was issued by the Museum of Modern Art and by Graphic Matter in 2013 in a limited edition of 500, printed and bound by Trifolio, Verona. It beautifully reproduces each of Klee/s prints on fine paper, which are accompanied by original texts and an updated list of plates.

Supernatural America
Supernatural America

Author: Robert Cozzolino

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-03

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780226786827

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America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history--the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars--are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation's heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor but present and tangible, urgently calling for contact, these otherworldly visitors have been central to our national identity. Through times of mourning and trauma, artists have been integral to visualizing ghosts, whether national or personal, and in doing so have embraced the uncanny and the inexplicable. This stunning catalog, accompanying the first major exhibition to assess the spectral in American art, explores the numerous ways American artists have made sense of their own experiences of the paranormal and the supernatural, developing a rich visual culture of the intangible. ​Featuring artists from James McNeill Whistler and Kerry James Marshall to artist/mediums who made images with spirits during séances, this catalog covers more than two hundred years of the supernatural in American art. Here we find works that explore haunting, UFO sightings, and a broad range of experiential responses to other worldly contact.

American Paintings
American Paintings

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 0870994395

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