Author: Shelburne MuseumPublisher: Shelburne, Vt. : Shelburne Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne Museum
Author: Shelburne MuseumPublisher: Shelburne, Vt. : Shelburne Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Wild Fowl Decoys
Author: Joel BarberPublisher: Derrydale Press
ISBN: 1461661528
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Joel Barber spent 20 years studying and collecting wild fowl decoys from Nova Scotia to North Carolina. Mr. Barber's authoratative volume is the only text written for the true collector and contains all there is to be known on the subject: how to recognize the locality from which a decoy comes, the world of famous decoy makers, the scarcity of certain types of decoys and more.
Drawing on America's Past
Author: Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807827949
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book presents watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts in the Index of American Design, a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the colonial period to about 1900. Three essays explore the history, operation, and ambitions of the Index of American Design, examine folk art collecting in America during the early decades of the twentieth century, and consider the Index's role in the search for a national cultural identity in the early twentieth-century United States.
Degas' Drawings
Author: H. G. E. DegasPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486139360
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Carefully reproduced from a rare 1923 limited edition, most of these magnificent drawings are unavailable elsewhere in published form. Dancers, nudes, portraits, travel scenes, and more. 100 drawings, including 8 in full color.
Grandma Moses
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780847847624
Category : Country life in art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A long-overdue reexamination of beloved American artist Grandma Moses, restoring her rightful place within the canon of mid-century American Art. One of the best-known artists of her time, and a true American legend, Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860 1961) was often marginalized as a latter-day "folk" painter or a phenomenon of popular media. Accompanying a traveling exhibition, this new book looks closely at the paintings themselves and the artist's compelling biography to reassert her role in the development of a culture of modernist art at mid-century. Presenting fresh research, several scholars examine Moses s name, public persona, painted world, and wildly popular place in American pop culture; address the myth of the self-taught artist; and contextualize her work alongside such contemporaries as Horace Pippin, Elie Nadelman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Morris Hirshfield.
Mary Cassatt
Author: Nancy Mowll MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Cassatt and Her Circle
Author: Mary CassattPublisher: New York : Abbeville Press
ISBN: 9780896594210
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Mary Cassatt's letters, like her art, are filled with revealing details. This selection of 208 letters -- most never published before -- provide new and vivid insights into this complex, intensely private woman."--JACKET.
Degas, Cassatt
Author: Kimberly A. JonesPublisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791353647
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edgar Degas's influence upon Mary Cassatt has long been acknowledged, but her role in shaping his artistic production and in preparing the way for his warm reception in America is fully examined for the first time. These two major figures of the impressionist movement shared a keen observer's eye, as well as an openness to experimentation.
Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier and Ives
Author: Publisher: Joslyn Art Museum
ISBN: 9781646570102
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"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.
Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place
Author: Thomas Andrew DenenbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9780916857530
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Winslow Homer and the poetics of place, June 5 - September 6, 2010, which was organized by the Portland Museum of Art, Maine." -- p. 71.