The Hoosier Group

The Hoosier Group

Author: Judith Vale Newton

Publisher: Arthur Schwartz

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780961499204

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The lives and works of Otto Stark, Theodore C. Steele, J. Ottis Adams, William Forsyth, and Richard B. Gruelle.


American Painters on Technique

American Painters on Technique

Author: Lance Mayer

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1606061356

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"How paintings were made--in the most literal sense--is an important but largely unknown aspect of the story of American art. This book, like the authors' previous volume on American painting techniques from the colonial period to 1860, is based on descriptions of the materials and methods that painters used, as found in artists' notebooks, painting manuals, magazines, suppliers' catalogues, letters, diaries, books, and interviews. In interpreting this evidence, the authors have made use of their experience as conservators who have treated many important American paintings."--Book jacket.


Five Early American Painters

Five Early American Painters

Author: Donald Braider

Publisher: Meredith Corporation

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Brief biographies of five early American painters including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and John Trumbull.


Color as Field

Color as Field

Author: Karen Wilkin

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780300120233

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Color field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is based on radiant, uninflected hues. Exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, and Frank Stella, among others, these stunningly beautiful and impressively scaled paintings constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. Color as Field offers a long-overdue reevaluation of this important aspect of American abstract painting. The authors examine how color field painting rejects the gestural, layered, and hyper-emotional approach typical of Willem de Kooning and his followers, yet at the same time develops and expands ideas about all-overness and the primacy of color posited by the work of other members of the abstract expressionist generation, such as Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. From the fresh historical standpoint of the 21st century, this fascinating reassessment ranges across the artists’ individual approaches and their commonalities, concluding with insights into the ongoing legacy of post-1970s color field painting among present-day artists.


Painting American

Painting American

Author: Annie Cohen-Solal

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Describes the transformation in American art as a vast group of American artists settled in Paris to study with the great French painters, and continued through the twentieth century as French artists began to leave Paris for New York.


Of Arms and Artists

Of Arms and Artists

Author: Paul Staiti

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1632864673

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A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic. The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons, serving as historical documents and timeless reminders of the nation's unprecedented beginnings. As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period--Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit. Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history they were living through by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn. Their imagery has connected Americans to 1776, allowing us to interpret and reinterpret the nation's beginning generation after generation. The collective stories of these five artists open a fresh window on the Revolutionary era, making more human the figures we have long honored as our Founders, and deepening our understanding of the whirlwind out of which the United States emerged.


American Gothic

American Gothic

Author: Steven Biel

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780393059120

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Describes Grant Wood's portrait of Iowa farmers, and documents how the piece has represented midwestern Puritanism, hard-working endurance, and the often-parodied American heartland.


The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters

The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters

Author: Patrick D. Lester

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 701

ISBN-13: 9780806199368

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Includes "over three thousand names ... working from 1800 to the present. Typical entries list the artist's tribal affiliation and tribal name, birth and death dates, residence, publications, exhibits, awards, and honors." Also includes "passages of human interest" and "Excerpts from professional reviews and critical essays."