The Etchings of J. Alden Weir
Author: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 66
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Author: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 66
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian Alden Weir
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeremiah William McCarthy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0300244282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing 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: Jeffrey W. Andersen
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume features artists who brought a new sophistication and elegancento American art in the three decades before World War I. Wealthyndustrialists eager to acquire culture began to patronize native artists whoad achieved international recognition. John Singer Sargent, Irving Wiles andecilia Beaux created portraits of these new patrons, while John La Farge andugustus Saint-Gaudens made luxurious adornments for their homes. One groupf painters - including Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frederick Arthur Bridgman,enry Ossawa Tanner and Charles Sprague Pearce - responded especially to theascnation with exotic Middle Eastern, Egyptian or "Oriental" cultures thatharacterized this age of international imperialism. The educated and refinedspects of Gilded Age culture are expressed here in Renaissance-inspiredaintings by Abbott Thayer and Mary Cassatt. Romantic literary works byisionary Albert Pinkham Ryder symbolize the idealized strivings of thiseneration, while the rugged masculine landscapes of Winslow Homer emblemizehe struggle and conflict that marked this period of contending social and
Author: William H. Gerdts
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: René Paul Barilleaux
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780878057986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReturning to New York in 1887, Donoho was associated with a group that included Childe Hassam, John Twachtman, Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell, among others of the most advanced artists working in America at that time.
Author: Kathryn Calley Galitz
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0847846598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and prized Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, and and the greatest European and North American masters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew; and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.
Author: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 74
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