Fitz H Lane

Author : James A. Craig
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781625844422

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Fitz H. Lane by James A. Craig Pdf

Fitz H. Lane’s maritime masterpieces are known throughout the world, but the man himself has eluded both historians and art critics for over a century. The Luminist painter’s successful career began in his early childhood in picturesque Gloucester, Massachusetts and his talents developed and matured over time, making him one of the nation’s premier nineteenth-century artists. Throughout his career, Lane painted with a vitality and attention to detail that was purely American at heart, and it is in pursuit of this ideal that James Craig embarks on a detective’s investigation to reconstruct with accuracy and honesty the details of a man about whom much has been written but little revealed. Few clues remain today about the artist who so thoroughly embodied the American spirit during “one of humanity’s most dramatic and confusing historical epochs.” Lane’s era was one of great change for America, and both he and his art were there to capture that spirit. This dazzling and exhaustive effort provides the first glimpse behind the canvas, beyond the career and into the soul of Fitz H. Lane. Passionate, stunning and thrilling, this is a narrative that returns life and color to a man intent or preserving and presenting the life of the culture he loved. James Craig has given Gloucester back one of her favorite sons.

Author : Fitz Henry Lane,Richard B. K. McLanathan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125858364X

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Fitzhugh Lane by Fitz Henry Lane,Richard B. K. McLanathan Pdf

Author : Sarah Dunlap,Stephanie Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 0615157297

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Fitz Henry Lane by Sarah Dunlap,Stephanie Buck Pdf

Author : James A. Craig
Publisher : History Press (SC)
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1596290900

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Fitz H. Lane by James A. Craig Pdf

Fitz H. Lane's maritime masterpieces are known throughout the world, but the man himself has eluded both historians and art critics for over a century. The Luminist painter's successful career began in his early childhood in picturesque Gloucester, Massachusetts and his talents developed and matured over time, making him one of the nation's premier nineteenth-century artists. Throughout his career, Lane painted with a vitality and attention to detail that was purely American at heart, and it is in pursuit of this ideal that James Craig embarks on a detective's investigation to reconstruct with accuracy and honesty the details of a man about whom much has been written but little revealed. Few clues remain today about the artist who so thoroughly embodied the American spirit during "one of humanity's most dramatic and confusing historical epochs." Lane's era was one of great change for America, and both he and his art were there to capture that spirit. This dazzling and exhaustive effort provides the first glimpse behind the canvas, beyond the career and into the soul of Fitz H. Lane. Passionate, stunning and thrilling, this is a narrative that returns life and color to a man intent or preserving and presenting the life of the culture he loved. James Craig has given Gloucester back one of her favorite sons.

Author : Margaretta M. Lovell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271093222

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Painting the Inhabited Landscape by Margaretta M. Lovell Pdf

The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geologic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however, was decidedly different. In this important study, Margaretta Markle Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled, explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H. Lane and investigates the patrons who supported his career, with an eye to understanding how New Englanders thought about their land, their economy, their history, and their links with widely disparate global communities. Lane’s works depict nature as productive and allied in partnership with humans to create a sustainable, balanced political economy. What emerges from this close look at Lane’s New England is a picture not of a “virgin wilderness” but of a land deeply resonant with its former uses—and a human history that incorporates, rather than excludes, Native Americans as shapers of land and as agents in that history. Calling attention to unexplored dimensions of nineteenth-century painting, Painting the Inhabited Landscape is a major intervention in the scholarship on American art of the period, examining how that body of work commented on American culture and informs our understanding of canon formation.

Author : John Wilmerding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015014427622

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Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane by John Wilmerding Pdf

A catalogue of paintings by maritime artist Fitz Hugh Lane. Established as one of the masters of 19th-century American painting, Lane depicts the character of maritime New England. The 61 paintings on view, dating from 1844 to 1864, primarily depicted ships and coastal scenes of New England. The exhibition was largely selected from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cape Ann Historical Association in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Author : Margaretta M. Lovell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271093239

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Painting the Inhabited Landscape by Margaretta M. Lovell Pdf

The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geologic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however, was decidedly different. In this important study, Margaretta Markle Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled, explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H. Lane and investigates the patrons who supported his career, with an eye to understanding how New Englanders thought about their land, their economy, their history, and their links with widely disparate global communities. Lane’s works depict nature as productive and allied in partnership with humans to create a sustainable, balanced political economy. What emerges from this close look at Lane’s New England is a picture not of a “virgin wilderness” but of a land deeply resonant with its former uses—and a human history that incorporates, rather than excludes, Native Americans as shapers of land and as agents in that history. Calling attention to unexplored dimensions of nineteenth-century painting, Painting the Inhabited Landscape is a major intervention in the scholarship on American art of the period, examining how that body of work commented on American culture and informs our understanding of canon formation.

Author : John Wilmerding
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015014427630

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Fitz Hugh Lane by John Wilmerding Pdf

Author : Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195345667

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Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface by Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita) Pdf

In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as its ideal form. "An impressive achievement." --Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review "An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American culture as a whole." --Robert Hughes, Time Magazine

Author : Caroline Sloat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0938791133

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Laid Down on Paper by Caroline Sloat Pdf

Lithography of Fitz Henry Lane

Author : Barbara Novak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0198042256

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American Painting of the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Novak Pdf

In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature. Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume--featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates--remains one of the seminal works in American art history.

Author : Charles Colbert
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812204995

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Haunted Visions by Charles Colbert Pdf

Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious meaning and, in doing so, draws fascinating connections between art and faith in the Victorian age. Examining the work of such well-known American artists as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Sydney Mount, and Robert Henri, Colbert demonstrates that Spiritualism played a critical role in the evolution of modern attitudes toward creativity. He argues that Spiritualism made a singular contribution to the sanctification of art that occurred in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The faith maintained that spiritual energies could reside in objects, and thus works of art could be appreciated not only for what they illustrated but also as vessels of the psychic vibrations their creators impressed into them. Such beliefs sanctified both the making and collecting of art in an era when Darwinism and Positivism were increasingly disenchanting the world and the efforts to represent it. In this context, Spiritualism endowed the artist's profession with the prestige of a religious calling; in doing so, it sought not to replace religion with art, but to make art a site where religion happened.

Author : John Wilmerding,Mary Blood Mellen,Stephanie Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Imitation in art
ISBN : 094593680X

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Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen by John Wilmerding,Mary Blood Mellen,Stephanie Buck Pdf

Author : Barbara Novak Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195345650

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Voyages of the Self : Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature by Barbara Novak Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University Pdf

Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, with Voyages of the Self, this esteemed critic completes the trilogy begun with the two earlier works, offering once again an exhilarating exploration of American art and culture. In this book, Novak explores several inspired pairings of key writers and painters, drawing insightful parallels between such masters as John Singleton Copley and Jonathan Edwards, Winslow Homer and William James, Frederic Edwin Church and Walt Whitman, and Jackson Pollock and Charles Olson. Through these and other groupings, Novak tracks the varied meanings of the self in America, in which the most salient characteristics of each artist or writer is shown to draw from--and in turn influence--the larger map of American life. Two major threads weaving through the book are the American preoccupation with the "object" and our continuing return to pragmatism. Novak notes for instance how Copley's art mirrors the puritan denial of self found in Jonathan Edwards and how as colonial scientists they share an interest in sensation and observation. She sees Winslow Homer and William James as practitioners of a pragmatic self grounded in an immediate experience that looks for concrete results. Through such fruitful comparisons--whether between Copley and Edwards, or Lane and Emerson, or Ryder and Dickinson--Novak sheds unmatched light on our nation's artistic heritage. Wonderfully illustrated with dozens of black-and-white pictures and sixteen full-color plates, here is a stunning work that yields a wealth of insight into American art and culture--and concludes Novak's landmark trilogy.

Author : Altschul Professor of Art History Barbara Novak,Barbara Novak
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195309423

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American Painting of the Nineteenth Century by Altschul Professor of Art History Barbara Novak,Barbara Novak Pdf

Isolates certain characteristics in nineteenth-century American art that we can denote as American.