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American views : essays on American art John Wilmerding
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks N 6505.W57 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilmerding, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, American.
- Painting--History.
- Painting.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 357 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.
- Contents:
- The allure of Mount Desert
- Thomas Cole in Maine
- Winslow Homer's Maine
- American waters : the flow of imagination
- Luminism and literature
- Under chastened light : the landscape of Rhode Island
- William Bradford : artist of the Arctic
- Fire and ice in American art : polarities from luminism to abstract expressionism
- Rembrandt Peale's Rubens Peale with a geranium
- Robert Salmon's Boston patrons
- George Caleb Bingham's geometries and the shape of America
- Winslow Homer in the 1870s
- Winslow Homer's Dad's coming
- Winslow Homer's Right and left
- Thomas Eakins's late portraits
- Locating Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- John F. Peto and the idea of still-life painting in nineteenth-century America
- Images of Lincoln in John F. Peto's late paintings
- George Bellows's boxing pictures and the American tradition.
- Notes:
- Essays originally published 1968-1990.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-345) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691040907 :
- OCLC:
- 23080602
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