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Book Thomas Cole s Studio

    Book Details:
  • Author : Annette Blaugrund
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-04-05
  • ISBN : 9783777436364
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Thomas Cole s Studio written by Annette Blaugrund and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of nineteenth-century American landscape painter Thomas Cole and the influential role of his studio for other artists of the Hudson River School. In December 1846, Thomas Cole excitedly began work in his new studio, but his early death left his great ambitions unfinished. His influence, both through works from his early career and ones he worked on in a self-designed studio during his final year, was truly profound for others who followed his example. In Thomas Cole's Studio: Memory and Inspiration, the artist's achievements and impact on future artists are described by renowned Cole scholar Franklin Kelly, along with contributions from three additional authors. Together, they offer a new understanding of the critical last phase of Cole's career and his lasting effect on other artists, as well as his unrealized ambitions.

Book Hudson River School

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  • Author : Amy Ellis
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300101163
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Hudson River School written by Amy Ellis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking selection of works from the largest and finest collection of Hudson River paintings in the world Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, recognized as the most extensive and finest in the world. Gorgeously and amply illustrated, the book includes paintings by all the major figures of the Hudson River School. Each work is beautifully reproduced in full color and is accompanied by a concise description of its significance and historical background. The book also includes artists' biographies and a brief introduction to American nineteenth-century landscape painting and the Wadsworth Atheneum's unique role in collecting Hudson River pictures.

Book The Encyclopedia of New York State

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York State written by Peter Eisenstadt and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 1960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.

Book Nineteenth Century Painters and Painting

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Painters and Painting written by Geraldine Norman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

Book From San Juan to Paris and Back

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  • Author : Edward J. Sullivan
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2014-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300203209
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book From San Juan to Paris and Back written by Edward J. Sullivan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Francisco Oller and the worlds of the Caribbean -- Francisco Oller at home and abroad -- Francisco Oller and Raphael Cordero: art and pedagogy in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico -- The Battle of Trevino: Oller and the dilemma of "official" painting -- Plantains and coconuts -- Conflicted affinities: Franciso Oller and William McKinley -- Oller and his work in the modern imagination.

Book The Chautauquan

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book The Chautauquan written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book George Cooke  1793 1849

Download or read book George Cooke 1793 1849 written by Donald D. Keyes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Cooke, a popular nineteenth-century portraitist and landscape painter, also painted historical subjects and copies of Old Master paintings. This first retrospective exhibition and catalogue of his works includes more than thirty portraits, historical scenes, landscapes, prints, and drawings. This publication won the LoPresti/Arliss Award for scholarly research.

Book The Chautauquan

Download or read book The Chautauquan written by Theodore L. Flood and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Cole s Journey

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  • Author : Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2018-01-29
  • ISBN : 1588396401
  • Pages : 292 pages

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.

Book The Hudson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances F. Dunwell
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2008-04-10
  • ISBN : 0231509960
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book The Hudson written by Frances F. Dunwell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A commanding and inspiring biography of a river that gave rise to an art movement, progressive social quests, [and] landmark environmental cases.” —Booklist (starred review) Includes maps, photos, and illustrations Frances F. Dunwell presents a rich portrait of the Hudson and of the visionary people whose deep relationship with the river inspired changes in American history and culture. Lavishly illustrated with color plates of Hudson River School paintings, period engravings, and glass plate photography, The Hudson captures the spirit of the river through the eyes of its many admirers. It reveals the crucial role of the Hudson in the shaping of Manhattan, the rise of the Empire State, and the trajectory of world trade and global politics, as well as the river’s influence on art and architecture, engineering, and conservation. “A story of interaction between people and the environment and a story of continuing inspiration and renewal.” —Library Journal

Book Masterpieces of the J  Paul Getty Museum  Decorative Arts

Download or read book Masterpieces of the J Paul Getty Museum Decorative Arts written by Charissa Bremer-David and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.

Book The Hudson River School

Download or read book The Hudson River School written by Trewin Copplestone and published by Gramercy Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called Hudson River School has a place of special importance in the history of American painting. Although there were many 'professional' artists working in the early and developing American society from the 17th to the 19th centuries, most of them, apart from the many charming naive practitioners, were itinerant portrait painters or those who looked to Europe for their style and subject matter. It was not until the early 19th century that artists began to consider the landscape which surrounded them as an interesting subject in itself; when they did, they perceived a grandeur, spaciousness and quality of natural beauty which filled them with awe and wonderment. It was this opening of the eyes of their compatriots to their natural heritage that these painters, who have come to be known as the Hudson River School, initiated. Although, in the first instance, it was the area of the Hudson River stretching northwards from New York that first entranced them, as the American continent towards the Rockies unfolded, the artists followed and produced work that revealed a magnificence of scale—the great lakes, the towering mountains. deep valleys and gorges of the land in which they found themselves. In this way, although the Hudson River was the first area to exert its influence on these landscapists and gave its name to them, their work spread widely to encompass the whole land. There was also another, transcendental, aspect to their work. they recognized the hand of God in their new environment and accordingly introduced a sense of divine mission into their painting which appealed to the adventurous religious spirit of the early settlers. Through this, their art acquired a new significance which had previously been absent. The story of the artists and their pictorial crusade is included in this selective survey which, of its nature, can only include a small number of the very many who have been identified with the Hudson River School.

Book The New International Encyclop  dia

Download or read book The New International Encyclop dia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New International Encyclopaedia

Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Downriver

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pennington, Estill Curtis
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9781455603701
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Downriver written by Pennington, Estill Curtis and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hudson River Highlands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances F. Dunwell
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780231070430
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Hudson River Highlands written by Frances F. Dunwell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the area's folklore and history, its portrayal in art, the role of West Point as a gateway to America, and the creation of Bear Mountain Park.

Book Restless Enterprise

Download or read book Restless Enterprise written by Katherine Manthorne and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819–1897) was America’s most famous woman artist in the mid-nineteenth century, but today she is all but forgotten. Beginning with her Irish roots, this biography brings her art and life back into focus. Breaking conventions for female artists at that time, Greatorex specialized in landscapes and streetscapes, traveling from the Hudson River to the Colorado Rockies and across Europe and North Africa. Her crowning achievement, a monumental tome of drawings and narratives titled Old New York, awakened the public to the destruction of the city’s architectural heritage during the post–Civil War era. Exploring Greatorex’s fierce ambition and creative path, Katherine Manthorne reveals how her success at forging an independent career in a male-dominated world shaped American gender politics, visual culture, and urban consciousness.