Download or read book Frank W Benson American Impressionist written by Faith Andrews Bedford and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Benson's masterpiece paintings of turn-of-the-century American society, New England's ports and country, and wildlife and sporting subjects, are among the most popular American works of art. His sparkling plein air painting of young women in white dresses are widely reproduced and his etchings and sporting paintings are generally considered to be some of America's best. This first full-scale monograph on Benson's entire career, summarizes his progress from his early promise as a young art student at the Academie Julian in Paris to his leading role as a teacher, portraitist, and painter in Boston and New England. Benson is particularly acclaimed for his splendid outdoor, sun-dappled portraits of members of his family, often in settings on the Maine coastline, as well as for his later, archetypal works of wildfowl, fishing, and hunting.
Download or read book Impressionist Summers written by Faith Andrews Bedford and published by Skira. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Me.), June 16th-Oct. 21st 2012.
Download or read book The Art of Frank W Benson written by Frank Weston Benson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the full spectrum of the work of Frank W. Benson, the last American impressionist who brilliantly captured the effects of light on the physical world. The paintings featured are from America's leading museums & private collections, & many are published here for the first time.
Download or read book Frank Benson s Hunting Fishing Art written by John R Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare collection of all fifty-five of Frank Benson's etchings in the hunting and fishing genre.
Download or read book American Impressionist written by Austen Barron Bailly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals traces Hassam's artistic exploration of Appledore Island, the largest island of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, where he traveled nearly every summer for thirty years"--
Download or read book Impressionism Transformed written by Susan E. Strickler and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at a nationally admired American impressionist painter and teacher.
Download or read book Winslow Homer Artist and Angler written by Patricia A. Junker and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with an exhibition of the nineteenth-century artist's fly-fishing paintings, an examination of the author's inspirations and works notes his use of watercolors and his insight into the sport that enabled him to convey its realities through his creations.
Download or read book The Boston Painters 1900 1930 written by Robert Hale Ives Gammell and published by Parnassus Press (IL). This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Berry Benson s Civil War Book written by Berry Benson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate scout and sharpshooter Berry Greenwood Benson witnessed the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, retreated with Lee's Army to its surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, and missed little of the action in between. This memoir of his service is a remarkable narrative, filled with the minutiae of the soldier's life and paced by a continual succession of battlefield anecdotes. Three main stories emerge from Benson's account: his reconnaissance exploits, his experiences in battle, and his escape from prison. Though not yet eighteen years old when he left his home in Augusta, Georgia, to join the army, Benson was soon singled out for the abilities that would serve him well as a scout. Not only was he a crack shot, a natural leader, and a fierce Southern partisan, but he had a kind of restless energy and curiosity, loved to take risks, and was an instant and infallible judge of human nature. His recollections of scouting take readers within arm's reach of Union trenches and encampments. Benson recalls that while eavesdropping he never failed to be shocked by the Yankees' foul language; he had never heard that kind of talk in a Confederate camp! Benson's descriptions of the many battles in which he fought--including Cold Harbor, The Seven Days, Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg--convey the desperation of a full frontal charge and the blind panic of a disorganized retreat. Yet in these accounts, Benson's own demeanor under fire is manifest in the coolly measured tone he employs. A natural writer, Benson captures the dark absurdities of war in such descriptions as those of hardened veterans delighting in the new shoes and other equipment they found on corpse-littered battlefields. His clothing often torn by bullets, Benson was also badly bruised a number of times by spent rounds. At one point, in May 1863, he was wounded seriously enough in the leg to be hospitalized, but he returned to the field before full recuperation. Benson was captured behind enemy lines in May 1864 while on a scouting mission for General Lee. Confined to Point Lookout Prison in Maryland, he escaped after only two days and swam the Potomac to get back into Virginia. Recaptured near Washington, D.C., he was briefly held in Old Capitol Prison, then sent to Elmira Prison in New York. There he joined a group of ten men who made the only successful tunnel escape in Elmira's history. After nearly six months in captivity or on the run, he rejoined his unit in Virginia. Even at Appomattox, Benson refused to surrender but stole off with his brother to North Carolina, where they planned to join General Johnston. Finding the roads choked with Union forces and surrendered Confederates, the brothers ultimately bore their unsurrendered rifles home to Augusta. Berry Benson first wrote his memoirs for his family and friends. Completed in 1878, they drew on his--and partially on his brother's--wartime diaries, as well as on letters that both brothers had written to family members during the war. The memoirs were first published in book form in 1962 but have long been unavailable. This edition, with a new foreword by the noted Civil War historian Herman Hattaway, will introduce this compelling story to a new generation of readers.
Download or read book The Work of Frank W Benson written by Minna Caroline Smith and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Being Frank written by Donna W. Earnhardt and published by Flashlight Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank follows the motto, "Honesty is the best policy." He tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Frank never lies to his schoolmates, he always tells the truth to adults, and he's always honest with police officers. The balancing act of finding tact, that fine line between telling the truth and telling too much truth, is the main theme of this story, and it's very funny—although not necessarily to his friend Dotti whose freckles remind Frank of the Big Dipper, or to the teacher who hears that her breath smells like onions, or to the principal who is told that his toupee looks like a weasel. No one is quite as impressed with Frank's honesty as he thinks they should be. He is sweet and straightforward, and, well, very frank, but with everyone annoyed at him, Frank is now honestly unhappy. He decides to visit his confidante and pal, Grandpa Ernest, who has a history of frankness himself. With a few lessons from Grandpa, Frank begins to understand that the truth is important, but so is not being hurtful. With amusing characters and expressive artwork, this story tells the powerful message of finding the good in everything—a lesson that sends compassion and understanding to take the place of rudeness in the complex concept of truth.
Download or read book American Impressionism and Realism written by Helene Barbara Weinberg and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the continuities and differences between American Impressionism and Realism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley written by Stephen B. O'Brien and published by Stephen B. O'Brien JR. Fine Arts. This book was released on 2009 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frank W Benson N A written by Frank Weston Benson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A series of books designed to make Americans more cognizant of the valuable contributions made by living American artists. Each volume, complete in itself, describes and illustrates the work of an individual etcher. ... [Each volume has an] article of appreciation and criticism ... twelve full-page aquatone reproductions of the artist's most important etchings ... [and a] catalogue of the author's published plates, giving sizes, numbers in editions, etc."--Series description on dust jacket.
Download or read book Historical Painting Techniques Materials and Studio Practice written by Arie Wallert and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1995-08-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Download or read book The Golden Age of American Impressionism written by William H. Gerdts and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No aspect of American art commands as much interest and appreciation as American Impressionism. Lavishly illustrated and gracefully written, The Golden Age of American Impressionism explores the full range of artistic achievement within this popular movement, with masterworks by such distinguished artists as Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, John Twachtman, and Julian Alden Weir, among others.
Download or read book Corcoran Gallery of Art written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
