Painters And Paintings In The Early American South

Author : Carolyn J. Weekley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art and history
ISBN : 030019076X

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Painters and Paintings in the Early American South by Carolyn J. Weekley Pdf

This beautifully illustrated volume presents the complex ways in which the lives of artists, clients, and sitters were interconnected in the early American South. During this period, paintings included not only portraits, but also seascapes, landscapes, and pictures made by explorers and naturalists. The first comprehensive study of this subject, Painters and Paintings in the Early American South draws upon materials including diaries, correspondence, and newspapers in order to explore the stylistic trends of the period and the lives of the sitters, as gentility spread from the wealthiest southerners to the middle class. Featuring works by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Benjamin West, among many others, this important book examines the training and status of painters, the distinction between fine art and the mechanical arts, the popularity of portraiture, and the nature of clientele between 1540 and 1790, providing a new, critical understanding of the history of art in the American South. Published in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Exhibition Schedule: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation(03/23/13-09/07/14)

Author : John Hill Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Painters
ISBN : UOM:39015031973194

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Early American Painters by John Hill Morgan Pdf

Author : John Hill Morgan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1333260830

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Early American Painters by John Hill Morgan Pdf

Excerpt from Early American Painters: Illustrated by Examples in the Collection of the New-York Historical Society My thanks are due to the officials of the Society who have placed all its records at my disposal, and especially to Mr. Robert H. Kelby and Mr. Alexander Wall for their generous help and assistance. In addition, I am indebted to Mr. Wall for the analytical index prepared by him which is annexed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Jennifer Van Horn
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469629575

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The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America by Jennifer Van Horn Pdf

Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.

Author : Jennifer Van Horn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300257632

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Portraits of Resistance by Jennifer Van Horn Pdf

A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center This timely and eloquent book tells a new history of American art: how enslaved people mobilized portraiture for acts of defiance. Revisiting the origins of portrait painting in the United States, Jennifer Van Horn reveals how mythologies of whiteness and of nation building erased the aesthetic production of enslaved Americans of African descent and obscured the portrait's importance as a site of resistance. Moving from the wharves of colonial Rhode Island to antebellum Louisiana plantations to South Carolina townhouses during the Civil War, the book illuminates how enslaved people's relationships with portraits also shaped the trajectory of African American art post-emancipation. Van Horn asserts that Black creativity, subjecthood, viewership, and iconoclasm constituted instances of everyday rebellion against systemic oppression. Portraits of Resistance is not only a significant intervention in the fields of American art and history but also an important contribution to the reexamination of racial constructs on which American culture was built.

Author : Richard H. Saunders
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611688931

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American Faces by Richard H. Saunders Pdf

Portraits. We know what they are, but why do we make them? Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. They created images to commemorate loved ones, glorify the famous, establish our national myths, and honor our shared heroes. Whether painting in oil, carving in stone, casting in bronze, capturing on film, or calculating in binary code, we spend considerable time creating, contemplating, and collecting our likenesses. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Richard H. Saunders explores our collective understanding of portraiture, its history in America, how it shapes our individual and national identity, and why we make portraits - whether for propaganda and public influence or for personal and private appreciation. American Faces is a rich and fascinating view of ourselves.

Author : Floyd Martin,Eileen Yanoviak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443893978

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Formations of Identity by Floyd Martin,Eileen Yanoviak Pdf

The physical landscape has been appropriated by artists throughout temporal and spatial history to represent (or present) political, social, and national identities. Artists have long imbued the landscape with personal and public ideologies. Indeed, landscapes can be more than simple representations of scenic beauty, when artists use the genre to convey or reflect upon various political and social concerns important in different periods. This collection of essays brings together the perspectives of scholars from a variety of backgrounds. Subjects range from Venetian Renaissance waterscapes to the rolling farm hills of Grant Wood, and from native Botswana imagery to ecosensitive Florida portraits. These examinations of landscapes consider the rich ideology and iconography that define and redefine peoples and places.

Author : Lisandra Estevez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527568198

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Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South by Lisandra Estevez Pdf

This volume gathers together recent research from leading scholars specializing in the history of collecting. American Southern art collections, both public and private, contain rich and representative holdings of Renaissance and Baroque art which remain understudied, compared to the collections bracketing the east and west coasts of the United States. This anthology considers how these works of art were acquired for both prominent public and private collections, how they have been curated and displayed in exhibitions, and how they have also been preserved historically. Individual essays address a variety of art media representative of the early modern period in Europe and the Americas. Case studies of specific works of art, collections, and collectors address the broad geographic scope of Southern collections, inclusive of Washington, DC, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas.

Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey,Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300187335

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The Civil War and American Art by Eleanor Jones Harvey,Smithsonian American Art Museum Pdf

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.

Author : Ehrich Galleries
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0265411114

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One Hundred Early American Paintings (Classic Reprint) by Ehrich Galleries Pdf

Excerpt from One Hundred Early American Paintings If through this booklet the interest in Early Ameri can painters is increased but a little, our labor will not have been in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Dale T. Johnson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Portrait miniatures
ISBN : 9780870995972

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American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection by Dale T. Johnson Pdf

Author : Patti Carr Black
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 1578060842

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Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980 by Patti Carr Black Pdf

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.

Author : John McCoubrey
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0812216946

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American Tradition in Painting by John McCoubrey Pdf

First published in 1963, this classic text is accompanied by a new introduction and an epilogue that explore the increased diversity in American art since the book appeared.

Author : Ehrich Galleries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Painters
ISBN : UOM:39015031973178

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One Hundred Early American Paintings by Ehrich Galleries Pdf

Author : Rachel Stephens
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611178678

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Selling Andrew Jackson by Rachel Stephens Pdf

A thorough examination of the portrait painter who helped shape the image and reputation of an American president Selling Andrew Jackson is the first book-length study of the American portrait painter Ralph E. W. Earl, who worked as Andrew Jackson's personal artist from 1817 until Earl's death in 1838. During this period Jackson held Earl in close council, even providing him residence at the Hermitage, Jackson's home in Tennessee, and at the White House during his presidency. In this well-researched and comprehensive volume, Rachel Stephens examines Earl's role in Jackson's inner circle and the influence of his portraits on Jackson's political career and historical legacy. By investigating the role that visual culture played in early American history, Stephens reveals the fascinating connections between politics and portraiture in order to challenge existing frameworks for grasping the inner workings of early nineteenth-century politics. Stephens argues that understanding the role Earl played within Jackson's coterie is critical to understanding the trajectory of Jackson's career. Earl, she concludes, should be credited with playing the propagandistic role of image-shaper—long before such a position existed within American presidential politics. Earl's portraits became fine art icons that changed in character and context as Jackson matured from the hero of the Battle of New Orleans to the first common-man president to the leader of the Democratic party, and finally to the rustic sage of the Hermitage. Jackson and Earl worked as a team to exploit an emerging political culture that sought pictures of famous people to complement the nation's exploding mass culture, grounded on printing, fast communications, and technological innovation. To further this cause, Earl operated a printmaking enterprise and used his portrait images to create engravings and lithographs to spread Jackson's influence into homes and businesses. Portraits became vehicles to portray political allegiances, middle-class cultural aspirations, and the conspicuous trappings of wealth and power. Through a comprehensive analysis of primary sources including those detailing Jackson's politics, contemporary political cartoons and caricatures, portraits and prints, and the social and economic history of the period, Stephens illuminates the man they pictured in new ways, seeking to broaden the understanding of such a complicated figure in American history.