Download or read book A Painter s Path Through the Catskill Mountains written by Robert Selkowitz and published by Ruder-Finn Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of pastels, Selkowitz's gentle landscapes easily transport the viewer to the lush hills and valleys of the Catskill Mountains.

Download or read book The Catskills written by Kenneth Myers and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Cole s Refrain written by H. Daniel Peck and published by Three Hills. This book was released on 2019 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shows how Thomas Cole's neglected Catskill Creek paintings cohere as a series and express the artist's deep attachment to place and region"--

Download or read book Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings written by John Denison Champlin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Picturing America Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Art written by Hudson Talbott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Scenic Routes BywaysTM New York written by Randi Minetor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenic Routes & Byways New York features nearly twenty-five separate drives through the Empire State. An indispensable highway companion, Scenic Routes & Byways New York includes full-color photos, route maps and in-depth descriptions of attractions.

Download or read book Making Mountains written by David Stradling and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.

Download or read book The Catskill Mountain House written by Roland Van Zandt and published by Black Dome Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Cole s Journey written by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Scenic Driving New York written by Randi Minetor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To enjoy all that New York state roadways have to offer, jump in the car and drive to sweeping lake or ocean views, lush vineyard landscapes, or breathtaking mountain vistas. Featuring more than 1,900 miles of scenic routes and byways, this indispensable highway companion maps out unforgettable trips for exploring New York’s natural beauty. Scenic Driving New York features thirty separate drives through the Empire State with delicious ice cream stops and fun side trips along the way. Buckle up and begin your next journey!

Download or read book The Catskills written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Explorer s Guide Hudson Valley Catskill Mountains written by Joanne Michaels and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the attractions, historic sites, accommodations, restaurants, and outdoor activities of the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains.

Download or read book Explorer s Guide Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains written by Joanne Michaels and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the attractions, historic sites, accommodations, restaurants, and outdoor activities of the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains.

Download or read book Backroads of New York written by Kim Knox Beckius and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Catskills written by Kenneth Myers and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 1987 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encounters Reflections written by Arthur C. Danto and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a collection of essays on modern art covering such artists as Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Robert Mapplethorpe

Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.