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That wilder image : the painting of America's native school from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer / by James Thomas Flexner.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks ND210 .F6 1962
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-2003
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, American.
- Painting, American--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bonanza Books, <U+fffd>1962.
- Contents:
- Eagle emergent : Thomas Cole starts a revolution
- More delightful than Eden : art turns to life in America
- The trace of men : Cole mediates between European tradition and American inspiration
- God in nature : Durand and the esthetic of the Hudson River School
- Before they bit the dust : painters of Indians
- Artist life : merchant amateurs, artistic lotteries, and athletic painters
- Winds from Europe : D<U+fffd>usseldorf and Paris, England and Italy
- Genre expands : from D<U+fffd>usseldorf to the Mississippi
- The grand and the subtle : Frederick Church and John Kensett
- Further adventures on the high style
- The decline of the portrait
- The Civil War sweetens genre
- Popular art : panoramas, prints, and "folk painters"
- Thousands of landscapes : high tide on the Hudson River
- Still life : a backwater
- The Rocky Mountain School : Bierstadt and others
- Harbinger : William Morris Hunt
- Native American impressionism : Inness, Wyant, and Martin
- Winslow Homer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC:
- 1278646
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