Download or read book Portraits in Oil by American Artists written by Hood Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exhibition of Portraits in Oil and Miniature of the Early American Artists and Their British Contemporaries written by Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1925* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exhibition of Portraits in Oil and Miniature of the Early American Artists and Their British Contemporaries written by Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Artists of America a Series of Biographical Sketches of American Artists written by Charles Edwards Lester and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oil Paintings written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Unusual Collection of Oil Portraits by Early American Artists and Ten Ivory Miniatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our American Artists written by Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oil Portraits of American Notables by Early American Artists written by Stan. V. Henkels (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meet the Artist written by M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oil Portraits of American Notables by Early American Artists 10 Ivory Miniatrues by Hugh Bridport Colonial Relics Silver Plate Mirrors Andirons Tucker and Other Porcelains Historical Relics Colored Patchwork Bedspreads and Counterpanes written by Stan. V. Henkels (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons in Likeness written by Estill Curtis Pennington and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1802, when the young Kentucky artist William Edward West began to paint portraits while on a downriver journey, and 1920, when the last of Frank Duveneck's students worked in Louisville, a large number of notable portrait artists were active in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley. In Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920, Estill Curtis Pennington charts the course of those artists as they painted a variety of sitters drawn from both urban and rural society. The work is illustrated, when possible, from The Filson Historical Society collection of some four hundred portraits representing one of the most extensive holdings available for study in the region. Portraiture involves artists and subjects, known as sitters, and is an art that combines elements of biography, aesthetics, and cultural history. Private portraits often attract an oral history that enlivens the more colorful aspects of local tradition and culture. Public portraits of towering figures such as George Washington, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln were often reproduced in printed format to satisfy popular demand and subsequently attained an iconic, timeless status. Lessons in Likeness is organized in two parts. Part One, the cultural chronology, serves as a backdrop to the biographies of the portrait artists. This section identifies stylistic sources and significant historical moments that influenced the artists and their milieus. Rather than working in isolation, portrait artists were connected to the world around them and influenced by prevailing trends in their trade. Early in the nineteenth century, for instance, Matthew Jouett journeyed to Boston for study with Gilbert Stuart, and upon his return to Kentucky painted in a style that subsequently influenced an entire generation. Later artists, notably Oliver Frazer and William Edward West, studied the lessons of Thomas Sully in Philadelphia. Sully popularized the lush, warmly colored, and highly flattering style of portraiture practiced by many of the itinerant artists whose careers were facilitated by the introduction of steam and rail travel. The Civil War provoked a dramatic shift in the cultural terrain, further augmented by the rise of photography and the emergence of academic art centers. Painters who had previously worked with a master painter, or learned on their own, were now able to study at established schools, especially in Cincinnati, which became one of the leading centers for the teaching of art in late nineteenth-century America. Several of the teachers there, Frank Duveneck and Thomas Satterwhite Noble in particular, had firsthand experience with avant-garde European styles, notably the realism and naturalism practiced in Munich and Paris in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and then taught in the art schools of New York and Philadelphia. Part Two profiles the artists from this area and period who have appeared in previous art historical literature and have an identifiable body of work represented in public and private collections. Individual biographies provide details of the artists' lives, sources for further study, and locations of works in public collections.
Download or read book Directory of American Portrait Artists written by David Romero and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strapless written by Deborah Davis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in each other a like-minded hunger for fame. Unveiled at the 1884 Paris Salon, Gautreau's portrait generated the attention she craved-but it led to infamy rather than stardom. Sargent had painted one strap of Gautreau's dress dangling from her shoulder, suggesting either the prelude to or the aftermath of sex. Her reputation irreparably damaged, Gautreau retired from public life, destroying all the mirrors in her home. Drawing on documents from private collections and other previously unexamined materials, and featuring a cast of characters including Oscar Wilde and Richard Wagner, Strapless is a tale of art and celebrity, obsession and betrayal.
Download or read book American Artists in Photographic Portraits written by National Museum of American Art (U.S.) and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 superb portraits taken from 1906 to 1975 by famed photographers Peter A. Juley and his son Paul. Subjects include Barnet, Benton, Burchfield, Calder, Dal�, Gibson, Glackens, Gross, Homer, Hopper, Kahlo, Marsh, Rivera and Rockwell. 213 halftones. Introduction and captions by Joan Stahl.
Download or read book Sargent and Italy written by Bruce Robertson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extravagantly illustrated catalogue--published in association with a major exhibition--evokes the romantic fascination with Italy that glimmers in the work of John Singer Sargent. Sargent, heralded on both sides of the Atlantic, was one of the most creative American artists of the late nineteenth century. Born in Florence to American parents living abroad, he retained a deep and lifelong connection to the country famed for its ability to get "ineradicably in one's blood." Sargent vacationed frequently in Italy, and most of the works he created there were painted not for commission but out of his artistic passion for Italy's people, land, and culture. Often hauntingly powerful, they range from dramatically painted genre scenes of Italian peasants and saturated landscapes that celebrate the beauty of the Italian countryside to portraits of other Anglo-American expatriates and tourists, including Henry James and Edith Wharton. The majority of works are of Italian sites, including well-known tourist spots but also the quieter, more isolated locales that Sargent sought out. His subjects include magnificent Italian gardens with their ancient and Baroque statuary, Rome's Neoclassical and Renaissance buildings, urban street scenes, the Italian Alps, and, of course, Venetian canals. Sargent found Venice particularly alluring, and the city well suited the watercolor medium in which he worked most often in Italy. His use of vivid colors, brushwork that varied from soft and fluid to bold and dashing, and an overwhelming sense of light and air characterize his Italian scenes--and rank Sargent as one of the finest watercolorists of all time. His later Italian works, some in watercolor and others in oil, reveal an artist who relished his materials and made art purely for art's sake. Both beautiful and informative, this lavish volume includes eighty-five color and fifty black-and-white images. It adds a new dimension to our appreciation of Sargent's art and will delight anyone who loves Italy, as Sargent so passionately did.
Download or read book Oil Portraits of American Notables by Early American Artists written by Stanislaus Vincent Henkels and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Paint Living Portraits written by Roberta Carter Clark and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master artist Roberta Carter Clark shares secrets for infusing portraits with life. Since its original publication, this best-selling book has earned a loyal following among students of portraiture. Back in print by popular demand, How to Paint Living Portraits has been updated to help today's artists discover the joys of this time-honored tradition. Hands-on instruction covers a range of ages and ethnicities, offering a practical approach to creating successful, spirited portraits in charcoal, oils and watercolor. • Includes 23 exercises for capturing recognizable likenesses, feature by feature • Offers instruction on painting the figure, hands and clothing • Addresses common stumbling blocks of skin tones and hair colors • Illustrates simple and complex lighting set-ups for achieving multiple moods and effects • Features 5 step-by-step portrait demonstrations in charcoal, oil and watercolor Clark brings fifty years of experience to this book, from technical expertise on color and composition to practical considerations of working with a live model. One of the most comprehensive guides ever written on the subject, it's a valuable reference for any skill level.
