Author: Carl Christian DautermanPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992279
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Sèvres Porcelain
Author: Carl Christian DautermanPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992279
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Comic History of Rome
Author: Gilbert Abbott À BeckettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Duncan Phyfe
Author: Peter M. KennyPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394425
Category : Cabinetmakers
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed elite, Phyfe would come to count among his clients some of the nation's wealthiest and most storied families. This richly illustrated volume covers the full chronological sweep of the craftsman's distinguished career, from his earliest furniture-- which bears the influence of his 18th-century British predecessors Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Hope--to his late simplified designs in the Grecian Plain. More than sixty works by Phyfe and his workshop are highlighted, including rarely seen pieces from private collections and several newly discovered documented works. Additionally, essays by leading scholars bring to light new information on Phyfe's life, his workshop production, and his roster of illustrious patrons. What unfolds is the story of Phyfe's remarkable transformation from a young immigrant craftsman to an accomplished master cabinetmaker and an American icon."--Publisher's website.
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.
A Southern Collection
Author: Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820315355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Southern Collection presents select masterworks from the permanent collection of the Morris Museum of Art on the occasion of the institution's inaugural exhibition. Drawn from a comprehensive survey collection of painting in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present day, the museum's opening exhibit explores an artistic terrain as rich and diverse as the South itself, arranged in categories that reflect critical chronological developments in the art world. A survey of painting activity in the South begins with the travels of itinerant portrait artists working prior to the Civil War. At the same time, landscape painting encompasses a sensitive response to the swamps, bayous and fertile fields of the South. Late in the nineteenth century strong and vivid genre painting competes with the nostalgic effects realized by Southern impressionists, whose shimmering, liquid images are invested with an elusive spirit of place. In this century, those strains of realism and naturalism that characterize the classic body of Southern writing appear in the representational art of painters who defied the modern abstract dictum. And finally, the exciting, compelling works of a current generation of both self-taught artists and sophisticated contemporary painters complete this fascinating, though sometimes neglected, chapter in American art history.
The Fine Private Library of the Late Oliver Henry Perkins, Des Moines, Iowa
Author: Oliver Henry PerkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
French Flower Painters of the 19th Century
Author: Elisabeth Hardouin-FugierPublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Om franske blomstermalere i det 19. århundrede
The Big 'L'
Author: National Defense University PressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Illustrations of the Genus Carex
Author: Francis BoottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Author: