American folk painting / by Mary Black and Jean Lipman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Mary, 1922-

Lipman, Jean, 1909-1998, author.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait painting, American--History.

Portrait painting, American.

Portrait painters--United States.

Portrait painters.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiv, 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : C.N. Potter, [1966]

Summary:

"This is the most comprehensive book ever published about the charming and enduringly interesting art of the self-taught American painter who worked in the small towns and countryside. Lavishly illustrated, with almost half of the full-page reproductions in color, it includes paintings from every major private and public collection of folk art in America, some of them well known, but with numerous oils and watercolors here illustrated for the first time." --publisher description.

Contents:

The colonial period

Between two wars, the heyday of the American folk artist

The professional portrait painter: 1780-1810, 1810-1840, 1840-1850

Daily life in the republic

Genre scenes

Landscape, seascape and townscape

Colloquial history

Inspiration from man

Inspiration from God

Art instructor and fractur maker

The illuminator

Art instruction for young ladies

Folk painting from the centennial to yesterday.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Black, Mary, 1922- American folk painting.

OCLC:

166491