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Book Enchantment the Art and Life of Lilian Westcott Hale

Download or read book Enchantment the Art and Life of Lilian Westcott Hale written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, this book concerns the art and life of the world's only "American Linear Impressionist", Lilian Westcott Hale. Born in Connecticut in 1881, Hale was educated primarily at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and lived for many years in nearby Dedham, moving to Charlottesville, Virginia after the death of her beloved educator, art critic, author, and painter husband, Philip Leslie Hale. A woman, Hale far outpaced the success of many men, including her husband. During her early decades of activity, Hale garnered innumerable naational awards, accolades, and prizes, and international acclaim for her oil portraits of children, women in interiors, and charcoal sketches of snowy landscpes, all created in an Impressionist style utilizing only vertical strokes. Hale was the originator and sole practitioner of a technique which paradoxically used line in an Impressionist manner. While her classic art fell out of favor during the Modernist 1940s and later, it is now once again very much in vogue. My relationship with the artist's only child, her daughter, Nancy, was of immeasurable assistance in the production of this book. Diane Elizabeth Kelleher Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 2013.

Book How to Research  Write and Publish an Art History Book in American Art

Download or read book How to Research Write and Publish an Art History Book in American Art written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of "How to Research, Write and Publish an Art History Book in American Art", Enchantment: The Art and Life of Lilian Westcott Hale, America's Linear Impressionist, details the life and art of Dedham, Massachusetts artist Lilian Westcott Hale. In the decades following the turn of the twentieth century, Hale was famous for her oil portraits of children, her charcoal renderings of the wooded environs of her home, and her images of beautiful women clothed in period dress situated in simple, elegant interiors. Hale's contribution to art history was her singular development of a technique of creating images comprised solely of vertical strokes. She used vertical line in an Impressionist manner - the first and only artist to do so. During her lifetime her compositions won national and international acclaim - and her classic images are still widely admired today. "How to Research, Write and Publish An Art History Book in American Art" details the methodologies employed in researching Enchantment, from the initial step of locating the artist's obituary through the processes of contacting relatives and friends of the artist, verifying and acquiring the results, to make the cumbersome task of research and writing a book a simple, logical process that anyone can accomplish.

Book LIZZIE AND THE SHELTER KITTY  A true story

Download or read book LIZZIE AND THE SHELTER KITTY A true story written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lessons of love are universal. This is the message that shines brightly in this specific tale of feline enamourment. Anyone, and everyone, who has ever loved and lost a pet will enjoy this true, autobiographical story about love and loss and the recovery of the loving spirit. After the death of her beloved Charlie, Lizzie is heart-broken. Yet, as she finds the will to open her heart again, this time to a new feline companion who desperately needs a nice home, she finds that love and happiness triumph.

Book The Rose Upon the Trellis  William Faulkner   s Lena Grove

Download or read book The Rose Upon the Trellis William Faulkner s Lena Grove written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarding William Faulkner’s novel, Light in August, the majority of critics view Lena Grove as an insignificant character. It is the intent of this thesis to right the discourse by showing that Lena Grove is a major figure: generally, symbolically, and when considered in her role as a literary device. Generally, Lena Grove functions as an eccentric individual and a Southern folk figure; symbolically she has become a pagan fertility goddess, an “opposite equal” to Joanna Burden, and a Persephone-Kore figure. As a literary device she comprises the entity who most closely offers us a set of “horizons of expectations” closest to a straightforward linear plotline. Even when we are in the “deconstructed” phases of her plotline, that is, embroiled in the construction of one of the other three plotlines, that of Joe Christmas, Byron Bunch or Reverend Gail Hightower, we consistently think of Lena Grove and wonder where she is in her journey across the South and her journey through life. In Light in August, in her own unique manner, Lena Grove is a major figure - ever present.

Book Sense  Sensibility and Sensation  the Marvelous Miniatures and Perfect Pastels of Laura Coombs Hills

Download or read book Sense Sensibility and Sensation the Marvelous Miniatures and Perfect Pastels of Laura Coombs Hills written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and yet traditional, Laura Coombs Hills (1859-1952) was renowned for both her miniatures on ivory and, later, her pastels of flowers. “Queen of Miniature Painters”, “...a veritable John Singer Sargent of miniature painting” and “Dean of Flower Pastels” were merely some of the many accolades ascribed to this New England artist. However, Hills’ accomplishments and contributions to America’s art historical culture entailed so much more. Sense, Sensibility and Sensation: The Marvelous Miniatures and Perfect Pastels of Laura Coombs Hills, America’s Lyrical Impressionist was conceived and written as an atypical art history book to better explore Hills’ many contributions to American culture, with a view toward a broader understanding of Hill’s ethos. Beyond the presentation of her unique, biographical history as an independent, woman-entrepreneur, this book explores Hill’s role in perpetuating a sense of individualism associated more closely with the concepts of home, hearth, and honor of the nineteenth century than the psychological anomie associated with the Modernism of the twentieth, - her own time. In addition, on the pages of this book will be found relevant discussions regarding Hills’ ties to Sense, Sensibility and Sensation, that is, to the idea of individualism associated with nineteenth century miniatures and Walt Whitman’s celebration of America; the notion of beauty associated with Contemplative Romanticism espoused by Edmund Burke; the sentiments of the “Romance poets” (Lord Byron and Percy B. Shelley); as well as the nineteenth century color theories of Michel Chevreul favored by the Impressionists. Moreover, notions of “democratic empiricism”, “aesthetic lyricism”, and Hills’ passion for “symphonic colors” – are all contributory factors which help to identity Laura Coombs Hills as what I have termed “America’s Lyrical Impressionist”.

Book FRIENDSHIP COTTAGE  The Little House that Big Jack Built

Download or read book FRIENDSHIP COTTAGE The Little House that Big Jack Built written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day, while at work in Washington D.C., my brother, Jack, (age 25) walked into the office of his boss and spoke the prophetic words: "l quit." He did not have a new job. But, what he did have in his back pocket was the copy of his deed to an as-yet-unseen, twelve acre woodlot in a small, New England town. Jack knew no one living there. But so began his special journey to realize his life-long dream of a home in the country. And in the process, Jack realized another dream: that of a life-long friendship with a remarkable farmer and disabled World War II veteran named Roland. So this is the unlikely story of the serendipitous founding of dreams - - of a wonderful friendship and of a home named Friendship Cottage.

Book Sense  Sensibility and Sensation

Download or read book Sense Sensibility and Sensation written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and yet traditional, Laura Coombs Hills (1859-1963) was renowned for both her miniatures on ivory and, later, her pastels of flowers. "Queen of Miniature Painters", "...a veritable John Singer Sargent of miniature painting" and "Dean of Flower Pastels" were merely some of the many accolades ascribed to this New England artist. However, Hills' accomplishments and contributions to America's art historical culture entailed so much more. Sense, Sensibility and Sensation: The Marvelous Miniatures and Perfect Pastels of Laura Coombs Hills, America's Lyrical Impressionist was conceived and written as an atypical art history book to better explore Hills' many contributions to American culture, with a view toward a broader understanding of Hill's ethos. Beyond the presentation of her unique, biographical history as an independent, woman-entrepreneur, this book explores Hill's role in perpetuating a sense of individualism associated more closely with the concepts of home, hearth, and honor of the nineteenth century than the psychological anomie associated with the Modernism of the twentieth, - her own time. In addition, on the pages of this book will be found relevant discussions regarding Hills' ties to Sense, Sensibility and Sensation, that is, to the idea of individualism associated with nineteenth century miniatures and Walt Whitman's celebration of America; the notion of beauty associated with Contemplative Romanticism espoused by Edmund Burke; the sentiments of the "Romance poets" (Lord Byron and Percy B. Shelley); as well as the nineteenth century color theories of Michel Chevreul favored by the Impressionists. Moreover, notions of "democratic empiricism", "aesthetic lyricism", and Hills' passion for "symphonic colors" - are all contributory factors which help to identity Laura Coombs Hills as what I have termed "America's Lyrical Impressionist".

Book The Rose Upon the Trellis  William Faulkner s Lena Grove

Download or read book The Rose Upon the Trellis William Faulkner s Lena Grove written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarding William Faulkner's novel, Light in August, the majority of critics view Lena Grove as an insignificant character. It is the intent of this thesis to right the discourse by showing that Lena Grove is a major figure: generally, symbolically, and when considered in her role as a literary device. Generally, Lena Grove functions as an eccentric individual and a Southern folk figure; symbolically she has become a pagan fertility goddess, an "opposite equal" to Joanna Burden, and a Persephone-Kore figure. As a literary device she comprises the entity who most closely offers us a set of "horizons of expectations" closest to a straightforward linear plotline. Even when we are in the "deconstructed" phases of her plotline, that is, embroiled in the construction of one of the other three plotlines, that of Joe Christmas, Byron Bunch or Reverend Gail Hightower, we consistently think of Lena Grove and wonder where she is in her journey across the South and her journey through life. In Light in August, in her own unique manner, Lena Grove is a major figure - ever present.

Book Scribner s Magazine

Download or read book Scribner s Magazine written by Edward Livermore Burlingame and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scribner s Magazine

Download or read book Scribner s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Research  Write and Publish an Art History Book in American Art

Download or read book How to Research Write and Publish an Art History Book in American Art written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, this book concerns the art and life of the world's only "American Linear Impressionist", Lilian Westcott Hale. Born in Connecticut in 1881, Hale was educated primarily at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and lived for many years in nearby Dedham, moving to Charlottesville, Virginnia after the death of her beloved educator, art critic, author, and painter husband, Philip Leslie Hale. A woman, Hale far outpaced the success of many men, including her husband. During her early decades of activity, Hale garnered innumerable national awards, accolades, and prizes, and international acclaim for her oil portraits of children, women in interiors, and charoal sketches of snowy landscapes, all created in an Impressionist style utilizing only vertical strokes. Hale was the originator and sole practitioner of a technique which paradoxically used line in an Impressionist manner. While her classic art fell out of favor during the Modernist 1940s, it is now once again very much in vogue.

Book Worlds of Enchantment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maxfield Parrish
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2010-02-18
  • ISBN : 0486473066
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Worlds of Enchantment written by Maxfield Parrish and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxfield Parrish enjoyed tremendous popularity throughout the early decades of the twentieth century. Bruce Watson, writing in Smithsonian magazine, deemed Parrish the "comman man's Rembrandt." It's said that during the Depression, a Parrish illustration was displayed on the walls of one out of every four American homes. The artist's romantic, richly colored images of winsome maidens and faraway places continue to appeal to modern audiences. Selected from hundreds of the artist's images for books, magazines, and calendars, this original collection spotlights Parrish's work from 1897 through the 1920s. Illustrations include art from publications such as Century Magazine, Collier's, and Scribner's. Numerous advertisements include the famed Edison-Mazda Lamp series, along with ads for Jell-O, Ferry's Seeds, and Swift's Premium Ham. A wide selection of book illustrations comprises scenes from The Arabian Nights, Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood, Louise Saunders' The Knave of Hearts, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales, and other treasured works

Book Where the Light Falls  Selected Stories of Nancy Hale

Download or read book Where the Light Falls Selected Stories of Nancy Hale written by Nancy Hale and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the masterful stories of a midcentury artist whose multifaceted portraits of women were generations ahead of her time “A stunning, crystalline collection.” —Vogue Nancy Hale was considered one of the preeminent short story artists of her era, a prolific writer whose long association with The New Yorker rivaled that of her contemporary John Cheever. But few readers today will recognize her name. Acclaimed author Lauren Groff has selected twenty-five of Hale's best stories, presented here in the first career-spanning edition of this astonishingly gifted writer's work. These stories seem ahead of their time in their depiction of women--complicated characters, sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, often remarkable in their apparent ordinariness, from an adolescent girl in Connecticut driven into delirium over her burgeoning sexuality in "Midsummer," to a twenty-something New Yorker experiencing culture shock during a visit to a friend's house in Virginia in "That Woman," to a New England widow in search of alcohol while babysitting her grandson in "Flotsam." Other stories touch on memories of childhood, the intense trauma of electroshock therapy, and the spectre of white supremacy. Haunting, vivid, and subversive in the best sense, Where the Light Falls is nothing less than a major literary rediscovery.

Book Hyde s Weekly Art News

Download or read book Hyde s Weekly Art News written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Syd Barrett   Pink Floyd

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julian Palacios
  • Publisher : Plexus Publishing
  • Release : 2015-06-29
  • ISBN : 0859658821
  • Pages : 841 pages

Download or read book Syd Barrett Pink Floyd written by Julian Palacios and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syd Barrett was an English composer and purveyor of some of the most intriguing music ever written. Famous before his twentieth birthday, Barrett led the charge of psychedelia onstage at London's famed UFO club. With a Fender Telecaster and a primitive Binson echo unit, Barrett liberated the guitar from being, in critic Simon Reynolds' words, 'a riff machine, and turned it into a texture and timbre generator.' His inspired celestial flights of improvisation, and his more structured and whimsical short songs indicated a mind of unusual inventiveness. Chief in Barrett's mind was a Zen-like insistence on spontaneity; each performance had to be unique, and Barrett strived to push his music farther and farther out into the zone of complete abstraction. This in-depth analysis of Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett's life and work is the product of years of extensive research. Lost in the Woods traces Syd's swift evolution from precocious young art student to acid-fuelled psychedelic rock star, and examines the myriad musical and literary influences that he utilised in composing his hypnotic, groundbreaking songs. A never-forgotten casualty of the excesses, innovations, and idealism of the 1960s, Syd Barrett is one of the most heavily mythologized men in rock, and Lost in the Woods offers a rare portrayal of a unique spirit in freefall.

Book The story of Avis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The story of Avis written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art

Download or read book New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).