Author: Robert J. WickendenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Art and Etchings of John Henry Twachtman
Author: Robert J. WickendenJohn Henry Twachtman
Author: Lisa N. PetersPublisher: Hudson Hills Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
John Twachtman (1853-1902) was one of the most modern American painters of his day, combining European and American influences to create his own highly individual style noted for its contemplative mood and bold immediacy of composition.
John Twachtman (1853-1902) a "Painter's Painter"
Author: Lisa N. PetersPublisher: IRA Spanierman Gallery
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Gilded Age
Author: National Museum of American Art (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This 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
Like Breath on Glass
Author: Marc SimpsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transcience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - this book explores this painterly phenomenon.
Life and Art
Author: Lisa PetersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578944425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) reached artistic maturity while living in Greenwich, Connecticut. There he created the paintings of his home and property that would earn him the reputation as the most original of the leading American Impressionists. This volume, accompanying an exhibition held at the Greenwich Historical Society, presents a new approach to Twachtman's Greenwich oeuvre, treating it as a unified project encompassing both the modifications the artist made to his home and the land surrounding it, and the images he derived from this subject matter.Incorporating insights gleaned from architectural study of Twachtman's house -- still extant -- Life and Art establishes a new detailed chronology of Twachtman's Greenwich paintings, revealing a progression in the artist's relationship to his subject. Following early attempts to harmonize his home with the surrounding landscape through painting, gradually Twachtman wielded control over the land and architecture itself. In this self-created world, the artist blended his painting life and home life into a beautiful whole. Illustrated with artworks from the exhibition and other examples from Twachtman's Greenwich years, Life and Art sets forth a new paradigm for considering the artist's relationship to home and work.
Scenes of New York
Author: Giles, ZenyPublisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282853
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ten American Painters
Author: William H. GerdtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
John Twachtman
Author: Eliot Candee ClarkA Walk Through the American Wing
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American WingPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588390136
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The Metropolitan’s renowned American Wing is where the Museum’s unsurpassed collection of American fine and decorative art is on permanent public display, from masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and drawing to exquisite examples of the finest American furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, and textiles. This handsome volume presents an overview of the collection and provides an informative walk through the American Wing’s richly furnished period rooms and stunning architectural displays. These include the magnificent marble façade of the Branch Bank of the United States—the entrance to the original American Wing when it opened in 1924—and the restored living room of a Frank Lloyd Wright prairie-style house. The comprehensive survey of paintings and sculpture begins with early colonial portraiture and from there follows the emergence and development of a national fine-arts tradition, including significant movements and genres such as the Hudson River School, neoclassical sculpture, and American Impressionism. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.