Harry N. Abrams, 1972. — 157 p. Beautifully bound and illustrated coffee-table book produced for an exhibition tour of Norman Rockwell paintings organized by Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York.
NY, 1968. — 110 p. [American Paintings and Historical Engravings. From the Middendorf collection. Baltimore Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art]. With the exception of two family portraits by Charles Willson Peale and Alfred Jacob Miller, all of the pictures included in this exhibition are owned by Mr. and Mrs. J. William Middendorf, II. Selected from more than two...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. — 367 p. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's commitment to American art goes back to its origins when one of the main reasons for creating the Museum was to provide the city and the nation with an institution that would attract and instruct American artists, as well as acquire their works. Leaders in the New York art world of the 1860s and 1870s...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2002. — 426 p. — ISBN: 1-58839-060-8 The Metropolitan Museum began acquiring American drawings and watercolors in 1880, just ten years after its founding. Since then it has amassed more than 1,500 works executed by American artists during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in watercolor, pastel, chalk, ink, graphite, gouache, and...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1993. — 70 p. Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets, but also...
Taschen, 2015. — 96 p. Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist’s consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, first formed in New York City, Rothko rejected the label and insisted instead on “a consummated experience between picture and...
Cologne: TASCHEN, 2015. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 3836504251; ISBN-13: 978-3836504256. Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist’s consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, first formed in New York City, Rothko rejected the label and insisted...
Cologne: TASCHEN, 2015. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 3836504251; ISBN-13: 978-3836504256. Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist’s consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, first formed in New York City, Rothko rejected the label and insisted...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2004. — 354 p. — ISBN: 1-58839-122-1 The most successful and resourceful portraitist of America's early national period, Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) possessed enormous natural talent, which he devoted to the representation of human likeness and character, bringing his witty and irascible manner to bear on each of his works, including his...
Crescent Books, 1989. — 125 p. Reproductions of the works that made Rockwell famous portray childhood, holidays, travel and family moments throughout the life cycle.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990. — 247 p. — ISBN: 0-8109-1895-1 The Metropolitan Museum of Art possesses a remarkable collection of about 175 pastels by important American artists such as Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Arthur G. Dove, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Because of their extreme fragility, these works are rarely exhibited and are never loaned to other institutions....
London: Sirrocco. 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78042-027-1 Mary Stevenson Cassatt ( May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994. — 628 p. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of American paintings is outstanding and includes many famous works. This volume, one of a series of three, documents an important collection of some 315 paintings by nearly 120 artists dating from the early eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. The museum's collection of...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 1557 p. The American artist John Singer Sargent, widely considered the leading portrait painter of his generation, is celebrated for his paintings of Edwardian era luxury, landscape paintings and Impressionistic masterpieces. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of...
R. H. Russell. 1902. — 78 c. English language. Album with illustrations by American artist Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944). Charles Dana Gibson is known as the creator of the Gibson Girls phenomenon, which represented the ideal of beauty at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Gibson drew illustrations for almost every major New York publication, such as Harper's Weekly,...
London: Princeton University Press, 1998. — 296 p. The remarkable portraits for which John Singer Sargent is most famous are only one aspect of a career that included landscapes, watercolors, figure subjects, and murals. Even within portraiture, his style ranged from bold experiments to studied formality. And the subjects of his paintings were as varied as his styles, including...
Religious Tract Society. 1876. — 238 p. Language: English. Life, way of life, architecture, and nature of North America through the eyes of 19th century artists. Watercolors, pen, and pencil drawings.
Routledge, 2015. — 79 p. John Trumbull's sweeping historical paintings of battle scenes of the American Revolution hang in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., for all to see. This patriot artist painted lifelike portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, and he traveled around the country to capture realistic likenesses of the other...
Third Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2007. — 327 p. In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists,...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023. — 273 p. — ISBN: 978-1-3501-8524-1. In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that catalyzed the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title "Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa", it displayed a range of copies from the influential collection of the German ethnologist...
Crescent Books. New York/A vend. New Jersey, 1989. — 116 p. — ISBN: 0-517-67599-4. With 84 full-color and 25 black-and-white illustrations. Norman Perceval Rockwell (February 3, 1894, New York, New York - November 8, 1978, Stockbridge, Massachusetts) was an American artist and illustrator. His work is popular in the United States, and he has illustrated the covers of The...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. — 68 p. John Singer Sargent (1856 — 925), a prolific and versatile American expatriate painter based in England, enjoyed great international acclaim and patronage. By 1900, when his reputation as a portraitist reached its apogee, he had been elected a member of London's Royal Academy of Arts and New York's National Academy of Design and was...
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