American painters on technique : the colonial period to 1860 Lance Mayer and Gay Myers

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer, Lance.

Contributor:

Myers, Gay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--Technique--History.

Painting.

Painting, American.

Physical Description:

xiii, 249 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2011.

Contents:

Provincial painters and European connections

Banjamin West and his influence

Americans in the old world: Copley, the Peales, and Trumbull

Gilbert Stuart: The first American old master

Washington Allston:" the painter poet"

Sully, the old masters, and "tone"

The "experimentalists"

Thoms Sully: compiler and experimenter

John Neagle: the methodical experimenter

Rembrandt Peale: experimenter and entrepeneur

Store-bought supplies and new materials in the 1830's,1840's, and 1850's

Thomas Cole: "the best landscape painter in the world"

William Sydney Mount: "stamped with an entirely american character".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-239) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line: Manuscript, Commonplace Book of John Neagle [Am .108]: Index (Figure 14, page 116) and page 7 (figure 10, page 88)

ISBN:

9781606060773 (hardcover)

1606060775 (hardcover)

OCLC:

698451507