This book brings a perspective to Heade and his works, presenting him as one of the most original and productive painters of his time.
In this elegantly illustrated book, the catalogue for the second major retrospective of Heade's work in thirty years, Theodore Stebbins and his collaborators focus on the major themes of Heade's work: seascapes, salt marshes, landscapes, ...
Annotation. "Roberta Favis tells the story of the last two decades of the life and artistic career of Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), when the peripatetic painter settled permanently in St. Augustine, Florida.
American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) was under-appreciated during his lifetime, forgotten in death, and rediscovered four decades later, yet today he is recognized as one of the most important artists America...
Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the protégé to the ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Ireland; died 1H78, San Francisco, California James Hamilton was born near Belfast, Ireland, of British artists such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, Scottish parents who immigrated to Philadelphia in whose influence can be seen in ...
The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure.” Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this book, Caveat Emptor, is Ken ...
Lee, Anthony, and Elizabeth Young. ... Snyder, Joel. Ameriean Frontiers.' The Photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, 1867-1874. Millerton, NY: Aperture in association with the Philadelphia Museum ofArt, 1981. Stapp, William F. “'Subjects of ...