The Civil War and American Art

The Civil War and American Art
Author: Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-12-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300187335

Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.

Drawing on America's Past

Drawing on America's Past
Author:
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780807827949

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.

Twentieth-century American Painting

Twentieth-century American Painting
Author: Gail Levin
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1987
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

A detailed analysis of the 128 paintings and drawings in the collection, each work reflecting the staggering number of trends that emerged during this period.

Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes

Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes
Author: Nicolai Cikovsky (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1988
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The beautifully illustrated book, with 47 color plates, will restore Raphaelle Peale, eldest son of artist, naurtalist, and inventor Charles Willson Peale, to his rightful place in the annals of American art.

Important Information Inside

Important Information Inside
Author: John Wilmerding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1983
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Leven en werk van de Amerikaanse schilder John Frederick Peto (1854-1907)

Four Artists of the Stieglitz Circle

Four Artists of the Stieglitz Circle
Author: R. Scott Harnsberger
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2002-09-30
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Providing a detailed annotated bibliography and research guide to the Stieglitz Circle and four of its leading members—Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Max Weber—this new sourcebook offers a chapter on each of the four artists. Complete with biographical essay and guides to writings, statements, correspondence, books, articles, reviews, reference sources, and archival sources, each artist's chapter gives the researcher an exhaustive catalogue of relevant material. The only such annotated sourcebook currently available on the Stieglitz Circle, R. Scott Harnsberger's work offers lists of annotated reproductions of each artist's works, keyed to over 600 source volumes not mentioned elsewhere in the volume, including catalogues of museums, galleries, private collections, thematic exhibitions, and auction firms.