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Author: Currier and Ives Staff
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486268491
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Reproduced from originals in the Museum of the City of New York: 24 well-known Currier & Ives prints, among them "Home to Thanksgiving," "The Road Winter," and "American Express Train." "

Author: Colin Simkin
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Category : Lithographs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Publisher: Joslyn Art Museum
ISBN: 9781646570102
Category : Art
Languages : en
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"Engravings for the people" a fresh appraisal of the printmakers Currier & Ives and their vision of America Currier & Ives was a powerhouse of 19th-century publishing and had an immeasurable influence on American visual culture. Founded in New York in 1834 by Nathaniel Currier, the company expanded to include a new partner, James Merritt Ives, after 1857. Currier & Ives produced millions of affordably priced copies of over 7,000 original lithographs, living up to its self-appointed title as "The Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints." The firm took advantage of New York City's booming arts culture in the latter half of the 19th century, but its output was not seen as fine art by critics, nor was it intended as such. Its prints were first and foremost commodities; the choice subjects often determined by popularity and sales figures. Currier & Ives perpetuated Victorian ideals in its depictions of family, history, politics and urban and suburban life. But these prints also served as an important record of a nation in the midst of an extraordinary transformation from a rural and agricultural landscape to an industrialized and urbanized global power. Along with their popular appeal, Currier & Ives's images offer a new opportunity to uncover the complexities and contradictions of our history and help shape our understanding of America's past.

Author: Frederic Arthur Conningham
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Category : Lithographers
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Author: Harry Twyford Peters
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ISBN: 9780405077418
Category : Lithography, American
Languages : en
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Author: N. Currier (Firm)
Publisher: [New York] : Promontory Press
ISBN: 9780883940310
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Lynn A. Coleman
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781586605520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Four American classic Currier & Ives lithographs spring to life in these tales of love and Christmas cheer.

Author: Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815610953
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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As one of Currier & Ives's leading artists, Frances ("Fanny") Bond Palmer (1812-1876) was a major lithographer whose prints found their way into homes, schools, barns, taverns, business offices, yacht clubs, and elsewhere, reaching a mass audience during her day. Her life was a true American fable-the story of an immigrant who came to the United States to start a new life for herself and her family and rose to the top of her profession. In Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist, Rubinstein chronicles the details of Palmer's life, situating her work as the product of her own merit rather than as an achievement of Currier & Ives, and portraying the artist as an enterprising professional and one of the most versatile and prolific lithographers of her day. Largely ignored by art historians because of her status as a graphic artist and as an employee of famous male publishers, Palmer's work was nonetheless a staple in nineteenth-century culture. Palmer was interested in recording all subjects that made up American life: her images of railroads, clipper ships, New York City, Civil War battle scenes, pictures of domestic bliss, and vistas of the newly opened West comprised at least two hundred of the company's signed prints. A long-time employee of Currier & Ives, she also collaborated anonymously with other staff artists, supplying landscape backgrounds and architectural elements to countless compositions. The first full-length biography of Palmer's life and work, as well as the first illustrated, annotated catalog of her drawings and prints, including a number of works that are new to the public and to scholars, Rubinstein's book shines a spotlight on this accomplished artist, arguing for her long overdue recognition as a pioneer in the history of women artists.

Author: Debbie Coe
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764349492
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The first full-color reference on Currier & Ives dinnerware produced from 1949 to 1986!