Albany Institute Of History Art

Author : Tammis K. Groft,Mary Alice Mackay
Publisher : Albany Institute of History and Art
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781438429946

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Albany Institute of History and Art by Tammis K. Groft,Mary Alice Mackay Pdf

Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History and Art is one of the nation's oldest cultural institutions. Today, it boasts outstanding collections largely focused on New York State's Upper Hudson Valley. These include Hudson River School landscape paintings, portraits by Ezra Ames and Charles Loring Elliott, sculpture by Erastus Dow Palmer, landscape and interior paintings by Walter Launt Palmer, and Albany –made silver and other crafts. This comprehensive overview of the Albany Institute of History and Art's American art and decorative-arts collections, presents color plates and essays on about 130 objects (of a total exceeding 20,000). Dating from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the 1990s, each object in this volume was chosen for its national significance, artistic merit, and relevance to the Institute's mission: collecting and interpreting the art, history, and culture of New York State's Upper Hudson Valley through four centuries.

Author : Tammis K. Groft
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0939072033

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Cast With Style by Tammis K. Groft Pdf

Introduction to the influential cast-iron stoves manufactured in Albany and Troy in the nineteenth century

Author : Joan Catherine Steiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Picture puzzles
ISBN : 0744581990

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Look-alikes by Joan Catherine Steiner Pdf

Author : Albany Institute of History and Art
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1555951015

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Albany Institute of History & Art by Albany Institute of History and Art Pdf

Beautifully illustrated introduction and overview to the collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art

Author : Peter Lacovara,Sue H. D'Auria
Publisher : Albany Institute of History and Art
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438469508

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The Mystery of the Albany Mummies by Peter Lacovara,Sue H. D'Auria Pdf

From the Nile to the Hudson, the story of how two Egyptian mummies joined an American museum collection. In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on continuous exhibition since then and are the most popular, celebrated, and best remembered of the museum’s collections. The story of their discovery in the tombs at Deir el-Bahri and their subsequent purchase by Brown, transport by steamship from Cairo to New York City, and steamboat travel to Albany was covered extensively by the Albany newspapers, and visitors from school-aged children to senior citizens often recount stories about their first encounter with the Albany mummies. The Mystery of the Albany Mummies tells the fascinating tale of these two mummies, from their initial mummification in ancient Egypt, to their acquisition by the AIHA in 1909, and finally to 2013, when the mystery of their identities was uncovered through the intersection of historical scholarship, science, and technology. In the book, which draws on the Institute’s 2013–2014 exhibition “GE Presents: The Mystery of the Albany Mummies,” scholars from around the world use new scholarship, scientific methods, and medical technology to determine the ages, sexes, occupations, and lifestyles of these two ancient denizens of the AIHA. Peter Lacovara is Director of the Ancient Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage Fund, and was previously Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Assistant Curator in the Department of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is the author of many books, including The World of Ancient Egypt: A Daily Life Encyclopedia. Sue H. D’Auria is an Egyptologist who worked for nearly two decades in the Egyptian Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and was an Associate Curator at the Huntington Museum of Art. She has edited several books, including Offerings to the Discerning Eye: An Egyptological Medley in Honor of Jack A. Josephson.

Author : Margaret Coffin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781438430072

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Borders and Scrolls by Margaret Coffin Pdf

Borders and Scrolls provides a fascinating glimpse of domestic wall painting in the historic Northeast. It looks in detail at how and why Americans in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut decorated the walls of their houses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wallpaper was just too expensive for even well-to-do merchants and farmers, who turned to craftsmen to stencil and freehand paint the walls around them. Much of this exquisite domestic art does not survive today: houses were remodeled, some torn down; walls have been repainted, papered over, or removed. Striking examples of those that remain are found in this richly illustrated volume, which reveals intricate technical processes, schools of design, similar designs and techniques on other objects and media, and engrossing histories and stories surrounding the houses, families, and craft painters. Margaret Coffin is the author of Death in Early America: The History and Folklore of Customs and Superstitions of Early Medicine, Funerals, Burials, and Mourning and The History and Folklore of American Country Tinware, 1700–1900.

Author : Newell Convers Wyeth
Publisher : Gambit Incorporated Publishers
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000445096

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The Wyeths by Newell Convers Wyeth Pdf

N. C. Wyeth was one of America's greatest illustrators and the founder of a dynasty of artists that continues to enrich the American scene. This collection of letters, written from his eighteenth year to his tragic death at sixty-one, constitutes in effect his intimate autobiography, and traces and development and flowering of the "Wyeth tradition" over the course of several generations. -- Amazon.com.

Author : Donna R. Barnes,Peter G. Rose,Albany Institute of History and Art
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815607474

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Matters of Taste by Donna R. Barnes,Peter G. Rose,Albany Institute of History and Art Pdf

Published to accompany an exhibition held in Sept. 2002 by the Albany Institute of History and Art.

Author : Albany Institute of History and Art
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0939072106

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New World Dutch Studies by Albany Institute of History and Art Pdf

The history, culture, and lifeways of New Netherland as researched and interpreted by Dutch and American scholars.

Author : Albany Institute of History and Art
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0939072157

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Work and World of an Early Nineteenth-century Albany Potter by Albany Institute of History and Art Pdf

Overview of the life, work, times, and legacy of renowned Albany potter Paul Cushman (1767-1833)

Author : Albany Institute of History and Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Painting
ISBN : UCSD:31822002008480

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Hudson Valley Paintings, 1700-1750 by Albany Institute of History and Art Pdf

Author : Roderic H. Blackburn,Ruth Piwonka
Publisher : Albany Institute of History and Art
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438429908

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Remembrance of Patria by Roderic H. Blackburn,Ruth Piwonka Pdf

How much of the Dutch world in America survived after the English? One hundred years after the English took control of New Netherland in 1664, New York retained many Dutch characteristics. The cultural milieu shifted abruptly, however, with population growth and increased affluence following the termination of the French and Indian Wars in 1760. British customs and tastes that were stylishly attractive to a new generation of moneyed colonists soon put Dutch culture in retreat in all but the most isolated areas. Some elements of the past persisted in ways never dreamed of by the Dutch West India Company officials, who oversaw their nation's colonization in America. These include caucus politics, separation of church and state, neighborly evening visits on the stoop, and Santa Claus. Even more striking is the similarity between principles and practices that emerged in the Dutch Republic four centuries ago and some of the precepts on which the American republic was founded. Much of the Dutch cultural and social history may be interpreted and understood through objects they brought with them and from those objects and structures they created in the New World. This landmark volume, originating in a major exhibit commemorating the tricentennial of the city of Albany, uncovers the range of Dutch colonial experience in America through some 350 objects: paintings, furniture, silver, gold, ceramics, textiles, prints, drawings, and architecture. The result is a rare and remarkable glimpse of New Netherland, a long-ago world that continues to resonate today. Roderic H. Blackburn is an ethnologist and architectural historian who has held positions as Director of Research at Historic Cherry Hill, Assistant Director of the Albany Institute of History and Art, and Senior Research Fellow at the New York State Museum. He is the author of Dutch Colonial Homes in America and Great Houses of New England. Ruth Piwonka is the author of A Portrait of Livingston Manor, 1686–1850 and the coauthor (with Roderic H. Blackburn) of A Visible Heritage: Columbia County, New York: A History in Art and Architecture.

Author : Hudson Talbott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399548680

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Picturing America: Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Art by Hudson Talbott Pdf

This fascinating look at artist Thomas Cole's life takes readers from his humble beginnings to his development of a new painting style that became America's first formal art movement: the Hudson River school of painting. Thomas Cole was always looking for something new to draw. Born in England during the Industrial Revolution, he was fascinated by tales of the American countryside, and was ecstatic to move there in 1818. The life of an artist was difficult at first, however Thomas kept his dream alive by drawing constantly and seeking out other artists. But everything changed for him when he was given a ticket for a boat trip up the Hudson River to see the wilderness of the Catskill Mountains. The haunting beauty of the landscape sparked his imagination and would inspire him for the rest of his life. The majestic paintings that followed struck a chord with the public and drew other artists to follow in his footsteps, in the first art movement born in America. His landscape paintings also started a conversation on how to protect the country's wild beauty. Hudson Talbott takes readers on a unique journey as he depicts the immigrant artist falling in love with--and fighting to preserve--his new country.

Author : Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser,Tim Barringer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396402

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Thomas Cole's Journey by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser,Tim Barringer Pdf

Thomas Cole (1801–1848) is celebrated as the greatest American landscape artist of his generation. Though previous scholarship has emphasized the American aspects of his formation and identity, never before has the British-born artist been presented as an international figure, in direct dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age. Thomas Cole’s Journey emphasizes the artist’s travels in England and Italy from 1829 to 1832 and his crucial interactions with such painters as Turner and Constable. For the first time, it explores the artist’s most renowned paintings, The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire cycle (1834–36), as the culmination of his European experiences and of his abiding passion for the American wilderness. The four essays in this lavishly illustrated catalogue examine how Cole’s first-hand knowledge of the British industrial revolution and his study of the Roman Empire positioned him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States, the ecological and economic changes then underway, and the dangers that faced the young nation. A detailed chronology of Cole’s life, focusing on his European tour, retraces the artist’s travels as documented in his journals, letters, and sketchbooks, providing new insight into his encounters and observations. With discussions of over seventy works by Cole, as well as by the artists he admired and influenced, this book allows us to view his work in relation to his European antecedents and competitors, demonstrating his major contribution to the history of Western art.

Author : Rebecca Bond
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Beds
ISBN : 9780544949065

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My Bed by Rebecca Bond Pdf

Delightful rhymes and charming hand-stitched art celebrate the many ways we sleep across the world. Perfect for a baby shower gift and for fans of This Is How We Do It.