The Brandywine tradition / Henry C. Pitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitz, Henry C. (Henry Clarence), 1895-1976.

Contributor:

Fitzgerald Rivers of America Collection (Library of Congress)

Youth Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911--Influence.

Pyle, Howard.

Artists--Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.).

Artists.

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

United States--Brandywine Creek Valley.

Art--United States--History.

Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.)--Civilization.

Genre:

Books.

Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 1969.

Authors' autographs (Provenance) -- Pitz -- 1969.

Physical Description:

xv, 252 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1969.

Summary:

The Brandywine is a river, and a valley, running from southeastern Pennsylvania into Delaware, still ""a pastoral landscape dotted with structures of indigenous stone, "" where a Revolutionary battle was fought and fashioned into legend, where a tradition of romantic illustration arose around Howard Pyle and, tempered by the strictures of pure form, continues in the person of Andrew Wyeth. This is auspiciously timed: the issuance of the magnum Wyeth opus will concentrate attention on his antecedents. Father N.C. Wyeth was Pyle's most famous pupil and Pyle, more significant as teacher than as artist, emerges most vividly via N.C.'s recollections. Mr. Pitz, a self-designated second generation Pylet light (at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art), integrates other students' experiences also, and he knows the Wyeth dynasty well. It's an assiduous ordering of particulars, only an eddy in art history perhaps, but with the many illustrations (in color and black-and-white), an ingratiating reminder of affirmative insularity. --Kirkus Review.

Contents:

The valley and its people

The battle of the Brandywine

Talent in the valley

Howard Pyle

the formative years

Growing up in Wilmington

New York apprenticeship

Moving toward fame

The artist becomes a teacher

Open country

Chadds Ford

School and colony

The crux of instruction

The years of fame

Italy

the last year

Four teaching disciples

The web of influence spreads

Newell convers Wyeth

A family of artists

Andrew Wyeth

The future of a tradition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.

Athenaeum literary award ; 1969

Other Format:

Online version: Pitz, Henry Clarence, 1895-1976. Brandywine tradition.

ISBN:

0517164310

9780517164310

OCLC:

448957

Online:

http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Pitz__Henry_C.html

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/henry-c-pitz/the-brandywine-tradition/