Painting The Nation

Author : Thomas Denenberg,John Wilmerding,Katie Wood Kirchhoff
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847859580

Get Book

Painting a Nation by Thomas Denenberg,John Wilmerding,Katie Wood Kirchhoff Pdf

An in-depth look at one of the richest collections of American art, assembled by Electra Havemeyer Webb, renowned collector and founder of Shelburne Museum. Electra Havemeyer Webb assembled Shelburne Museum’s trove of American paintings in the late 1950s, creating a renowned and rich survey of American portraits, landscapes, marine paintings, sporting art, still lifes, and genre scenes from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. During an era that preferred European modernism and abstraction, Webb’s visionary endeavor presented a new story of the United States: an attractive and industrious nation with its own valuable artistic traditions. This handsome book features the best of Shelburne’s American paintings, including works by colonial painters John Wollaston and John Singleton Copley, portraits by William Matthew Prior and Ammi Phillips, Hudson River School landcapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and John Frederick Kensett, and scenes of American life by Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. The collection is also notable for its great depth in the works by Fitz Henry Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Carl Rungius, Grandma Moses, and Ogden Pleissner.

Author : Sharona Adamowicz-Clements,Martens,Darrin J. Martens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 1773271083

Get Book

George Paginton by Sharona Adamowicz-Clements,Martens,Darrin J. Martens Pdf

A beautiful and long-overdue portrait of a great, but little known, painter of the vast Canadian natural and urban landscape. George Paginton: Painting a Nation explores the journey of a relatively unknown Canadian landscape painter who was a peer of members of the Group of Seven. Paginton's private passion was to document the wonder of nature from coast to coast. A prolific artist, Paginton created over 1500 oil paintings, the majority of which never exhibited or sold commercially. This publication aims to present the artist to Canadians and include him in the art historical cannon of the nation.

Author : Rosina Buckland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004249417

Get Book

Painting Nature for the Nation by Rosina Buckland Pdf

In Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan, Rosina Buckland offers an account of the career of the painter Taki Katei (1830–1901). Drawing on a large body of previously unpublished paintings, collaborative works and book illustrations by this highly successful, yet neglected, figure, Buckland traces how Katei transformed his art and practice based in modes derived from China in order to fulfil the needs of the modern nation-state at large-scale exhibitions and at the imperial court.

Author : National Maritime Museum (Great Britain),John Bonehill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122739779

Get Book

Art for the Nation by National Maritime Museum (Great Britain),John Bonehill Pdf

Published to coincide with an exhibition in the Queen's House in November 2006, 'Art for the Nation' is a celebration of key oil paintings in the National Maritime Museum collection.

Author : John Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058138028

Get Book

Painting the Nation by John Morrison Pdf

This study describes one of the most vibrant periods of Scotland's art and casts new light on the evolution of its identity and culture.

Author : Mark Benjamin Godfrey,Zoé Whitley
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 1942884176

Get Book

Soul of a Nation by Mark Benjamin Godfrey,Zoé Whitley Pdf

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at Tate Modern, London, July 12-October 22, 2017; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 3-April 23, 2018; and Brooklyn Museum, New York, September 7, 2018-February 3, 2019.

Author : Kathleen Virginia Ritter,Tania Willard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 1895442982

Get Book

Beat Nation by Kathleen Virginia Ritter,Tania Willard Pdf

Author : David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300057326

Get Book

Picturing a Nation by David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin Pdf

Art historian David Lubin examines the work of six nineteenth-century American artists to show how their paintings both embraced and resisted dominant social values. Lubin argues that artists such as George Bingham and Lily Martin Spencer were aware of the underlying social conflicts of their time and that their work reflected the nation's ambivalence toward domesticity, its conflicting ideas about child rearing, its racial disharmony, and many other issues central to the formation of modern America.--From publisher description.

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050773624

Get Book

Art for the Nation by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Pdf

Exhibition includes approximately 2% of the acquisitions made during the 1990s.

Author : Mitchell Albala
Publisher : For Artists
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780760371350

Get Book

The Landscape Painter's Workbook by Mitchell Albala Pdf

"The Landscape Painter's Workbook takes a modern approach to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting, from accomplished artist, veteran art instructor, and established author Mitchell Albala"--

Author : Leanne Simpson
Publisher : Arbeiter Ring Pub
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1894037502

Get Book

Dancing on Our Turtle's Back by Leanne Simpson Pdf

By combining provocative prose with photo-essay, Time and the Suburbs explores the disappearance of cities in North America under the weight of suburban, exurban, and other forms of development that are changing the way we live and do politics. Drawing on social theory from Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord to Antonio Negri, this book reconceptualizes the tasks facing activists and social movments. This is both a provocative essay and introduction to important social theory for anyone interested in cites and urban development.

Author : Faythe Levine,Cortney Heimerl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000122579232

Get Book

Handmade Nation by Faythe Levine,Cortney Heimerl Pdf

The authors have selected 24 makers and 5 essayists who work within different media and have different methodologies to provide a microcosm of the crafting community. This book features photographs of the makers, their work environment, their process, their work, and discussions of how they got their start.

Author : Benita Eisler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393240863

Get Book

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler Pdf

The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.

Author : Nell Painter
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640092006

Get Book

Old In Art School by Nell Painter Pdf

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman's later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter your age” (Essence). Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school––in her sixties––to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, “You will never be an artist”? Who defines what an artist is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference? Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art in this "glorious achievement––bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives" (Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage).

Author : Angela L. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art, American
ISBN : MINN:31951D037244200

Get Book

America by Angela L. Miller Pdf

Spectacular landscapes, epic stories and diverse peoples feature in this expansive historical survey of American painting. The 89 artworks by some 74 artists traverse over 200 years of rich history, from the colonial era to the mid-20th century. Readers will encounter the sublime poetry and drama of the land, the ambition and optimism of the country's pioneers, the challenges of the frontier, the intimacy of family life and the intensity of the modern city. The roots of the American character and nation will be revealed through images ranging from the Grand Canyon to the Brooklyn Bridge, from classic portraits to modern abstraction. America: Painting a Nation includes works by artists such as Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler from the collections of some of the finest art museums in the US (The Terra Foundation, Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts). Essays by Angela Miller (USA) and Chris McAuliffe (Australia), combined with entries on each of the artworks and biographies on each artist, illuminate this fascinating survey of American painting from 1750 to 1967.