The Life And Work Of Martin Johnson Heade

Author : Theodore E. Stebbins,Janet L. Comey,Martin Johnson Heade,Karen E. Quinn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300081831

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The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade by Theodore E. Stebbins,Janet L. Comey,Martin Johnson Heade,Karen E. Quinn Pdf

Martin Johnson Heade was one of the most significant American painters of the nineteenth century, creator of portraits, history and genre pictures, still lifes, ornithological studies, landscapes, and marines, and his own unique orchid and hummingbird compositions. This book brings a perspective to Heade and his works, presenting him as one of the most original and productive painters of his time. Theodore Stebbins builds on his acclaimed 1975 study of Heade, drawing on several newly discovered collections of Heade's letters and the painter's own Brazilian journal. Stebbins tells of Heade's training and early career as an itinerant portraitist and discusses his move to New York, where, under the influence of Frederic E. Church, he began painting landscapes and seascapes. He examines Heade's relationships with patrons and dealers, writers and scientists, and he sheds new light on Heade’s trips to Brazil, to the Central American tropics, and to London. And he describes Heade's move to Florida in 1883, which marked not his retirement but a final period of creativity that lasted until his death in 1904. The book includes not only an examination of Heade's life and works but also reproductions of all his 620 known paintings, including nearly 250 that have been discovered since 1975.

Author : Theodore E. Stebbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Painters
ISBN : 0300018088

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The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade by Theodore E. Stebbins Pdf

Author : Roberta Smith Favis,Martin Johnson Heade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 081302661X

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Martin Johnson Heade in Florida by Roberta Smith Favis,Martin Johnson Heade Pdf

Annotation. "Roberta Favis tells the story of the last two decades of the life and artistic career of Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), when the peripatetic painter settled permanently in St. Augustine, Florida. Providing generous illustrations in both black and white" Annotation. Roberta Favis tells the story of the last two decades of the life and artistic career of Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), when the peripatetic painter settled permanently in St. Augustine, Florida. Providing generous illustrations in both black and white and color, she reassesses his career and importance by focusing on this late period of his work and looking more closely at his local context and the contemporary issues particular to the state that became his home. The history of Heade's career in Florida is, like many Florida stories, a complicated interplay between the forces of tourism and development and the rich natural beauty of the state. Favis closely examines Heade's relation to the development of tourism in St. Augustine and uses his writings to show his sometimes conflicting attitudes toward development and conservation. He artistically celebrated the beauties of the state being touted as "the new Eden," but he was an active participant in the projects of Henry Flagler to transform St. Augustine into a mecca for northern tourists, while his writings expressed concern that the pristine environment and its inhabitants were already threatened. In words and in pictures, Heade spoke of the vitality, beauty, and the fragility of Florida. Combining his biography, art, and writing, Favis captures and early chapter in the history of art in Florida and brings to light an early and compelling advocate for the preservation of the state's natural riches. ... Adapted from jacket.

Author : Theodore E. Stebbins,Martin Johnson Heade,Jim Wright,Karen E. Quinn
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Painting, American
ISBN : 0878464662

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Martin Johnson Heade by Theodore E. Stebbins,Martin Johnson Heade,Jim Wright,Karen E. Quinn Pdf

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) had the longest career and produced perhaps the most varied body of work of any American painter of the nineteenth century. His prolific oeuvre ranges from American coastal marshes and marine landscapes to the lush tropical splendor of South and Central American landscapes, birds, and flowers. An independent thinker as well as a world traveler, Heade developed a singular approach to landscape and still life painting, adapting some elements of the style and practice of the Hudson River School to his own more Darwinian vision. While Heade had only a minor reputation in his own day and was completely forgotten for many decades after his death, he is now rightly regarded as an artist of great significance and originality, and as the only American whose landscapes and still lifes are equally important.

Author : Theodore E. Stebbins,Martin Johnson Heade,Janet L. Comey,Jim Wright,Karen E. Quinn,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300081693

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Martin Johnson Heade by Theodore E. Stebbins,Martin Johnson Heade,Janet L. Comey,Jim Wright,Karen E. Quinn,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Los Angeles County Museum of Art Pdf

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) had the longest career and produced perhaps the most varied body of work of any American painter of the nineteenth century. His prolific oeuvre ranges from American coastal marshes and marine landscapes to the lush tropical splendor of South and Central American landscapes, birds, and flowers. An independent thinker as well as a world traveler, Heade developed a singular approach to landscape and still life painting, adapting some elements of the style and practice of the Hudson River School to his own more Darwinian vision. While Heade had only a minor reputation in his own day and was completely forgotten for many decades after his death, he is now rightly regarded as an artist of great significance and originality, and as the only American whose landscapes and still lifes are equally important. In this elegantly illustrated book, the catalogue for the second major retrospective of Heade's work in thirty years, Theodore Stebbins and his collaborators focus on the major themes of Heade's work: seascapes, salt marshes, landscapes, tropical landscapes, the "gems" of Brazil (as hummingbirds are known), passion flowers, orchids, and his late work in Florida. There are also chapters on Heade's critics and the development of Heade's painting technique.

Author : Barbara Novak,Timothy A. Eaton
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015041341994

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Martin Johnson Heade by Barbara Novak,Timothy A. Eaton Pdf

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) was under-appreciated during his lifetime, forgotten in death, and rediscovered four decades later, yet today he is recognized as one of the most important artists America has produced. This book surveys Heade's long and diverse career and includes examples of his portraits, landscapes, hummingbirds, still lifes, and flowers. Heade's history is vague; he was an artist who wrote often and copiously, but seldom about his own work or himself. Although his work will continue to be researched and his philosophical and aesthetic concerns speculated on, he will, nevertheless, remain enigmatic.

Author : Christopher Benfey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440629532

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A Summer of Hummingbirds by Christopher Benfey Pdf

The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade intersected in an intricate map of friendship, family, and romance that marked a milestone in the development of American art and literature. Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the protégé to the painter Heade-confesses her love for Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, and the players suddenly find themselves caught in the crossfire between the Calvinist world of decorum, restraint, and judgment and a new, unconventional world in which nature prevails and freedom is all.

Author : Robert G (Robert George) McIntyre
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101514456X

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Martin Johnson Heade, 1819-1904 by Robert G (Robert George) McIntyre Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ross Barrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520343917

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Speculative Landscapes by Ross Barrett Pdf

Speculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists’ financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy—Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow Homer—Ross Barrett argues that the experience of property investment exposed artists to new ways of seeing and representing land, inspiring them to develop innovative figural, landscape, and marine paintings that radically reworked visual conventions. This approach moved beyond just aesthetics, however, and the book traces how artists creatively interrogated the economic, environmental, and cultural dynamics of American real estate capitalism. In doing so, Speculative Landscapes reveals how the provocative experience of land investment spurred painters to produce uniquely insightful critiques of the emerging real estate economy, critiques that uncovered its fiscal perils and social costs and imagined spaces outside the regime of private property.

Author : Ken Perenyi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781639363056

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Caveat Emptor by Ken Perenyi Pdf

It is said that the greatest art forger in the world is the one who has never been caught. Caveat Emptor reveals the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger. Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure.” Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this book, Caveat Emptor, is Ken Perenyi’s confession. It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off. Glamorous stories of art-world scandal have always captured the public imagination. However, not since Clifford Irving’s 1969 bestselling Fake has there been a story at all like this one. Caveat Emptor is unique in that it is the first and only book by and about America’s first and only great art forger. And unlike other forgers, Perenyi produced no paper trail, no fake provenance whatsoever; he let the paintings speak for themselves. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds. In the tradition of Frank Abagnale’s Catch Me If You Can, and certain to be a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries, here is the story of America’s greatest art forger.

Author : University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1580462464

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Seeing America by University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery Pdf

A stunning, full-color volume that examines 82 pieces in the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's American collection and their connections to American history, culture, literature, and politics. Seeing America is the first-ever catalog of the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's American collection. Founded in 1913, the Memorial Art Gallery was created in conjunction with the University of Rochester so that it would function within a scholarly milieu, yet at the same time perform service as a community museum. From its conception it has been an ardent advocate for American art, which so many counterpart institutions snubbed untilat least the 1930s, and more often until well after World War II, in favor of European and Asian art. The 336-page, full-color volume examines 82 objects and their connections to American history, culture, literature and politics. The 73 articles present a running commentary on each piece by knowledgeable and thoughtful contemporary scholars and artists writing with expertise and insight, ultimately presenting a new and deeper understanding that enhances the reader/viewer's appreciation of the work. The tour ranges from Colonial times to the twenty-first century, from Maine to Florida to the far West, from mighty historical subjects to intimate byways, from august figures and events to the humblest and most anonymous. The diversity of American experience on display here reminds us that the best American art is inextricably bound up with the essential truths of American experience.

Author : Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art auctions
ISBN : 1599670887

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Important Fine Art Auction by Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.) Pdf

Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey,Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Samantha A. Noël
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478012894

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Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism by Samantha A. Noël Pdf

In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noël investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation. With depictions of tropical scenery and landscapes situated throughout the African diaspora, performances staged in tropical settings, and bodily expressions of tropicality during Carnival, artists such as Aaron Douglas, Wifredo Lam, Josephine Baker, and Maya Angelou developed what Noël calls “tropical aesthetics”—using art to name and reclaim spaces of Black sovereignty. As a unifying element in the Caribbean modern art movement and the Harlem Renaissance, tropical aesthetics became a way for visual artists and performers to express their sense of belonging to and rootedness in a place. Tropical aesthetics, Noël contends, became central to these artists’ identities and creative processes while enabling them to craft alternative Black diasporic histories. In outlining the centrality of tropical aesthetics in the artistic and cultural practices of Black modernist art, Noël recasts understandings of African diasporic art.

Author : David Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0521375533

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Dark Eden by David Miller Pdf

An important though little understood aspect of the response of nineteenth-century Americans to nature is the widespread interest in the scenery of swamps, jungles, and other wastelands. Dark Eden focuses on this developing interest in order to redefine cultural values during a transformative period of American history. Professor Miller shows how for many Americans in the period around the Civil War nature came to be regarded less as a source of high moral insight and more as a sanctuary from an ever more urbanised and technological environment. In the swamps and jungles of the South a whole range of writers and artists found a set of strange and exotic images by which to explore changing social realities of the times and the deep-seated personal pressures that accompanied them.