Macon Sketchbook

Macon Sketchbook
Author: Conie Mac Darnell
Publisher: Indigo Custom Publishing
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0972595120

Envision a place in the very heart of Georgia, where genteel living and genuine southern hospitality complement the progressive growth and dynamic community ties that have been the essence of Macon for more than 170 years. The Macon Sketchbook features more than 165 original watercolors created by talented, homegown artists.

Scenic Georgia Sketchbook, A: Landmarks and Wonders from the Back Roads

Scenic Georgia Sketchbook, A: Landmarks and Wonders from the Back Roads
Author: Ronald R. Huffman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467149403

More than eighty historic buildings and roadside landmarks across Georgia have found sanctuary in this stark but powerful collection of sketch work. From obscure treasures like a Cobb County covered bridge to the instantly recognizable Forsyth Park in Savannah, landscape architect Ronald Huffman puts pencil to pad to safeguard moments of state history. Each piece is accompanied by anecdotes and related backstories that preserve the context of these icons before progress irrevocably alters the landscape. Explore the back roads of Georgia with a guide attuned to the unexpected splendors that mark the way.

Montgomery & the River Region Sketchbook

Montgomery & the River Region Sketchbook
Author: Mary Ann Neeley
Publisher: Indigo Custom Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2004
Genre: Historic buildings
ISBN: 097628751X

Montgomery and The River Region have been blessed with a rich and vibrant history. These pages are an attempt to tell their story through the magic of words and the wonder of art.

The Sickroom

The Sickroom
Author: Shayna Krishnasamy
Publisher: Deep Dark Press
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2010-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0981335225

Jacob and Macon don't have anything in common. He's a thirteen-year-old city boy trying to find his place in the world and she's his little country cousin, the prodigy painter who hardly speaks. When Jacob is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer and falls ill he's exiled to the attic - the sickroom - and discovers his love of art in the paintings he finds there. Turning his back on his troubles back home, Jacob launches himself into a friendship with the younger cousin he always ignored, a secret friendship. But secrets can be dangerous and when a tantalizing chance to reinvent himself arises Jacob makes a choice that changes both his life and Macon's forever. A powerful novella from the author of Come When I Call You and Home about the betrayals we regret, the friendships we cherish and the summers we never forget.

Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980

Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980
Author: Patti Carr Black
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781578060849

In Art in Mississippi Patti Carr Black focuses on several hundred significant artists and showcases in full color the work of more than two hundred. Nationally acclaimed native Mississippians are hereGeorge Ohr, Walter Anderson, Marie Hull, Theora Hamblett, William Dunlap, Sam Gilliam, William Hollingsworth, Jr., Karl Wolfe, Mildred Nungester Wolfe, John McCrady, Ed McGowin, James Seawright, and many others. Prominent artists who lived or worked in the state for a significant period of time are included as well - John James Audubon, Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Caleb Bingham, William Aiken Walker, and more. Black explores how art reflects the land and how modes of living and values dictated by Mississippi's changing topography created a variety of art forms. She demonstrates the influence of Mississippi's diverse cultures upon the art and shows how it has responded in many forms - painting, architecture, sculpture, fine crafts - to the changing aesthetics of national art movements.

Milwaukee Sketchbook

Milwaukee Sketchbook
Author:
Publisher: Indigo Custom Publishing
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2005-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0976287544

For a year, a group of16 art students at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design walked the city of Milwaukee with sketchpads in hand. The 123 landmarks and scenes captured in the students' artwork and reproduced in the Milwaukee Sketchbook showcase the results of those artistic explorations.

Drawing an Elusive Line

Drawing an Elusive Line
Author: Elizabeth E. Guffey
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780874137347

Moreover, the book explores Prud'hon's prescient comprehension of a dawning art market among the newly powerful middle class while tracing the sources of his more traditional imperial patronage. In surveying the breadth of Prud'hon's graphic output, Drawing an Elusive Line includes more than 150 drawings by the artist, some little known or previously unpublished."--Jacket.

Turner en France

Turner en France
Author: Joseph Mallord William Turner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1981
Genre: France
ISBN: