Author: Art Association of MontrealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Business of Watercolour
Author: Simon FenwickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429760620
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
First published in 1997, this volume will revolutionise the study of watercolour painting in Britain. The Royal Watercolour Society archive constitutes a major academic resource covering two hundred years of the history of watercolour painting in Britain. The rediscovery in 1980 of ‘the Jenkins Papers’, the early records of the Society, was a major find for the history of British art. The archives are substantial and remarkably comprehensive. Minutes of annual general meetings, Council and committees, are all intact; extraordinarily, the Society’s catalogues for its own exhibitions have also survived, with details of who bought the pictures and for how much. It contains biographical information on several hundred artists who practised throughout the United Kingdom from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. Prepared by the archivist to the RWS, Simon Fenwick, this is not just a work of reference, but an absorbing book to dip into again and again. The Society of Painters in Water Colours, as it was then titled, was founded in 1804 to promote the interests of painters using watercolour and to provide a platform for members to sell their work. As such, its archives provide an excellent insight into the evolving debate on the status of the artists and their medium, and an authoritative account of the way in which watercolour paintings were sold, distributed and acquired. The substantial introduction by Greg Smith surveys some of the purposes and practices of watercolour from 1750 to the present day and highlights key issues, many yet to be examined, relating to the study of watercolour. His survey is arranged around a number of topics including the notion of watercolour as a British art, collecting and display, book illustration, architectural drawing, map-making and topography, antiquarian studies, decorative arts, printmaking, portrait miniatures and drawings, amateur practices and the changing status of the sketch.
The Studio
Author: A View of Some of the Transactions of the Border Agricultural Society, and of the Union Agricultural Society
Author: George JerdanThe Cincinnatus
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
"Devoted to scientific agriculture, horticulture, education, and improvement of rural taste." (varies)
Cincinnatus
Author: International Commerce
Author: Transactions
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Edith Halpert, the Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art
Author: Rebecca ShaykinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231008
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book presents the fascinating untold story of art-world tastemaker Edith Halpert, who sold, promoted, and effectively defined American art in the 20th century.
Homer Boss
Author: Homer BossPublisher: Chazen Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780932900364
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This is a collection of Homer Boss's paintings, scrapbooks, papers, and oral histories relating to his New Mexico years as well as to his influential teaching days at the Independent School of Art and Art Students League in New York City.
Foreign Commerce Weekly
Author: United States. Department of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description