Download or read book Frank Denon written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Violet Oakley written by Bailey Van Hook and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874–1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, portraitist and author. There is much human interest here: a pampered and spoiled young woman who suddenly finds herself in near poverty, forced to make a living in illustration to support her parents; a sensitive and idealistic young woman who, in a desperate attempt to save her neurasthenic father, embraces Christian Science, a religion derided by her family and friends; a 28 year old woman who receives one of the plum commissions of the era, a mural cycle in the Pennsylvania State Capitol, in a field dominated by much older and predominantly male artists; a woman in her forties who although professionally successful finds herself very much alone and bonds with her student, Edith Emerson; a friend of artists like dancer Ruth St. Denis and violinist Albert Spalding who nevertheless was supremely conscious of social mores, the “Miss Oakley” of the Social Register who preferred the company of upper class to bohemian society; the tireless self-promoter who traveled abroad to become the unofficial visual historian of the League of Nations yet who ironically was increasingly regarded as a local artist.

Download or read book Eanger Irving Couse written by Virginia Couse Leavitt and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eanger Irving Couse (1866–1936) showed remarkable promise as a young art student. His lifelong interest in Native American cultures also started at an early age, inspired by encounters with Chippewa Indians living near his hometown, Saginaw, Michigan. After studying in Europe, Couse began spending summers in New Mexico, where in 1915 he helped found the famous Taos Society of Artists, serving as its first president and playing a major role in its success. This richly illustrated volume, featuring full-color reproductions of his artwork, is the first scholarly exploration of Couse’s noteworthy life and artistic achievements. Drawing on extensive research, Virginia Couse Leavitt gives an intimate account of Couse’s experiences, including his early struggles as an art student in the United States and abroad, his study of Native Americans, his winter home and studio in New York City, and his life in New Mexico after he relocated to Taos. In examining Couse’s role as one of the original six founders of the Taos Society of Artists, the author provides new information about the art colony’s early meetings, original members, and first exhibitions. As a scholar of art history, Leavitt has spent decades researching her subject, who also happens to be her grandfather. Her unique access to the Couse family archives has allowed her to mine correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks, and memorabilia, all of which add fresh insight into the American art scene in the early 1900s. Of particular interest is the correspondence of Couse’s wife, Virginia Walker, an art student in Paris when the couple first met. Her letters home to her family in Washington State offer a vivid picture of her husband’s student life in Paris, where Couse studied under the famous painter William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian. Whereas many artists of the early twentieth century pursued a radically modern style, Couse held true to his formal academic training throughout his career. He gained renown for his paintings of southwestern landscapes and his respectful portraits of Native peoples. Through his depictions of the domestic and spiritual lives of Pueblo Indians, Couse helped mitigate the prejudices toward Native Americans that persisted during this era.

Download or read book True Colors written by Patricia Hill Burnett and published by Momentum Books LLC. This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Georgia O Keeffe written by Nancy J. Scott and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia O’Keeffe, the most famous woman artist of American modernism and a pioneer in abstract art, created a vision without precedent. She expressed the grandeur of her world in the Southwest, from the high desert mesas to the smallest flower, with fierce independence. And a separate world has risen up around her fame: from the photographic nudes of her by Alfred Stieglitz to the iconic images of her, years later, set in the stunning landscapes of New Mexico. In this book, Nancy J. Scott draws on extensive sources—including many of O’Keeffe’s letters—to offer a sensitive and incisive examination of her groundbreaking works, their evolution, and how their reception has been caught in conflicts between O’Keeffe’s inner self and public persona. Following the young artist as her path-breaking, abstract charcoal landscapes caught the attention of gallery impresario Stieglitz, Scott tells the story of their partnership, of Stieglitz’s nudes, and the development of O’Keeffe’s early reputation as a sexually inspired, Freudian-minded artist. Scott explores the independent expression that O’Keeffe forged in opposition to the interpretations of her abstract work and the hybrid space that O’Keeffe’s works came to inhabit. Ultimately, she blended the abstract with the real in interpretations of flowers, bones, shells, rocks, and landscapes, which would become her hallmark subjects. Unique to this biography is the inclusion of her letters—which have only recently been made available. They show that her words can be just as revelatory as her paintings, and they offer the intimate voice of an artist alive in an era of great artistic development. The result is a succinct yet comprehensive account of one of the most prolific and important artists of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Edmonia Lewis written by Charlotte Etinde-Crompton and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmonia Lewis was a free woman of color who gained recognition as a sculptor during the Civil War. Of black and Native American heritage, she stood out in the largely white and male-dominated art world. At first, she struggled to find sculptors willing to mentor her, but Lewis was determined to succeed and opened an art studio in 1864. Her early works included busts of Native Americans and abolitionists, a community that helped her career thrive. Readers will learn that a move to Rome in 1866 raised her to international fame. Against all odds, she achieved unimaginable success as an artist. Inspire readers by introducing them to Edmonia Lewis.

Download or read book Fire Light written by Linda M. Waggoner and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist, teacher, and Red Progressive, Angel De Cora (1869-1919) painted Fire Light to capture warm memories of her Nebraska Winnebago childhood. In this biography, Linda M. Waggoner draws on that glowing image to illuminate De Cora's life and artistry, which until now have been largely overlooked by scholars. One of the first American Indian artists to be accepted within the mainstream art world, De Cora left her childhood home on the Winnebago reservation to find success in the urban Northeast at the turn of the twentieth century. Despite scant documentary sources that elucidate De Cora's private life, Waggoner has rendered a complete picture of the woman known in her time as the first "real Indian artist." She depicts De Cora as a multifaceted individual who as a young girl took pride in her traditions, forged a bond with the land that would sustain her over great distances, and learned the role of cultural broker from her mother's Métis family. After studying with famed illustrator Howard Pyle at his first Brandywine summer school, De Cora eventually succeeded in establishing the first "Native Indian" art department at Carlisle Indian School. A founding member of the Society of American Indians, she made a significant impact on the American Arts and Crafts movement by promoting indigenous arts throughout her career. Waggoner brings her broad knowledge of Winnebago culture and history to this gracefully written book, which features more than forty illustrations. Fire Light shows us both a consummate artist and a fully realized woman, who learned how to traverse the borders of Red identity in a white man's world.

Download or read book Wanda Gag The Story of an Artist written by Alma Scott and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book Beyond the Flower written by Judy Chicago and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed portrait of the evolution of internationally renowned artist, writer, and feminist Judy Chicago--creator of "The Dinner Party" and "Holocaust Project"--lifts the veil of the public persona she has become and reveals Chicago's personal struggles as an artist and feminist in late 20th-century America. of photos. of color plates.

Download or read book Ernest Clifford Peixotto written by Ernest D. Peixotto and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the 20th century the artistic talent of Ernest C. Peixotto was confirmed by honors won for his paintings at the Paris salons. Having achieved acclaim as an illustrator by the age of twenty-four, he illustrated books for Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge and Edith Wharton, among many other notables. Ernest and his wife Mary, an artist in her own right, traveled extensively throughout Europe and North and South America. Their experiences served as the inspiration for his numerous illustrated articles and books. By the age of thirty-four, enabled by his God-given talent and work ethic, Ernest had established residences in Fontainebleau, outside Paris, and New York City's upper East Side. The couple lived a life of enviable artistic fulfillment on both continents and were among society's international elite. Later in his life, he became a renowned mural painter, and as a member of the Board of Design for the 1939 New York World's Fair, he supervised the art decoration for the Fair.

Download or read book Portrait of an Artist written by Laurie Lisle and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when she died at the age of ninety-eight. Her vivid visual vocabulary -- sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth -- had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence on American art in this century. O'Keeffe's personal mystique is as intriguing and enduring as her bold, brilliant canvases. Here is the first full account of her exceptional life -- from her girlhood and early days as a controversial art teacher...to her discovery by the pioneering photographer of the New York avant-garde, Alfred Stieglitz...to her seclusion in the New Mexico desert, where she lived until her death. And here is the story of a great romance -- between the extraordinary painter and her much older mentor, lover, and husband, Alfred Stieglitz. Renowned for her fierce independence, iron determination, and unique artistic vision, Georgia O'Keeffe is a twentieth-century legend. Her dazzling career spans virtually the entire history modern art in America.

Download or read book Art Lover written by Anton Gill and published by Harper. This book was released on 2002-04-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mrs. Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?" she was once asked. "D'you mean my own, or other people's?" Peggy Guggenheim's tempestuous life (1898-1979) spanned the most exciting and volatile years of the twentieth century, and she lived it to the full. How she became one of the century's foremost collectors of modern art-and one of its most formidable lovers-is the subject of this lively and authoritative biography. Her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic en route home from installing the elevator machinery in the Eiffel Tower, and it was in Paris in the 1930s that the young heiress came into a small fortune and began to make her mark in the art world. Uneasily married to the alcoholic English dilettante writer Laurence Vail, she joined the American expatriate bohemian set. Though her many lovers included such lions of the worlds of art and literature as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst (whom she later married), Yves Tanguy, and Roland Penrose, real love always seemed to elude her. In the later 1930s, Peggy set up one of the first galleries of modern art in London, quickly acquiring a magnificent selection of works by Picasso (who snubbed her), Magritte, Miró, and Brancusi, and buying great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America after the Nazi invasion of France. Escaping from Vichy, she moved back to New York, where she was hugely influential in assisting the beginnings of the new American abstract expressionist movement (in particular, Jackson Pollock). Meticulously researched, filled with colorful incident, and boasting a distinguished cast, Anton Gill's biography reveals the inner drives of a remarkable woman and indefatigable patron of the arts.

Download or read book Georgia O Keeffe written by Mike Venezia and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Briefly examines the life and work of the 20th-century American artist known for her paintings of flowers and presents examples of her art.

Download or read book Grace Notes written by Grace Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering together over 100 of her major works and many drawings and etchings, this book tells the life story of the artist Grace Gardner.

Download or read book Gertrude Fiske written by Carol Walker Aten and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Fiske: American Master is an exploration of an artistic virtuoso considered to be one of the most talented and bold painters of her time. Trained and influenced by the premier Boston Impressionists Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, Philip Leslie Hale, and Charles Woodbury, Fiske surpassed conventional expectations through her personal élan to create a singular body of work both daring and riveting. Fiske, a Boston native, spent her summers in Ogunquit, Maine, and often painted in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the greater Seacoast. Published to accompany a loan exhibition at the Portsmouth Historical Society, this catalogue delves into the breadth of her work. Containing more than sixty works of art drawn from many private and public collections, this exhibition--the first devoted to Fiske in more than thirty years--features several paintings that have never been published and others that have been recently conserved.To help put Fiske in context, a companion exhibition, "Sisters of the Brush and Palette," includes works of art by several of Gertrude Fiske's contemporaries-- Susan Ricker Knox, Margaret J. Patterson, and Anne W. Carleton--to lend a deeper understanding of women artists at the dawn of their independence in this country. This component examines the social and political energy around women's rights at the turn of the twentieth century that encouraged a new autonomy and personal ambition, attitudes translated to bolder ideas and execution on canvas. Seacoast Masters Today features four contemporary local artists who are making their name with the same initiative and vitality as Fiske and her peers: Amy Brnger, Donna Harkins, Sydney Bella Sparrow, and Pamela duLong Williams.

Download or read book Georgia O Keeffe written by Beverly Gherman and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a foremost American artist, beginning with her early fascination with color and light, the struggle for recognition in a man's field, her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, and the final glory of her New Mexico years.

Download or read book Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: