Art of Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist (Peabody Essex Museum Collections)

Arts & Photography

Bedford, Faith Andrews

Buckley, Laurene

Peabody Essex Museum

Benson, Frank Weston

Lahikainen, Dean T.

Winchell, Jane M.

Individual Artists

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<li>One of the first American artists to bring French Impressionism home to develop on native soil</li>
<li>Despite his talent and the significant accolades earned during his career, the recognition of Theodore Wendel's achievements has faded in the near-century following his death</li>
<li>The Artist Book Foundation is delighted to have the opportunity to remedy this situation with this volume</li>
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One of the first American artists to bring French Impressionism home to develop on native soil, Theodore Wendel is likely the last to have a monograph that records his remarkable career and stunning oeuvre. His portraits and still lifes, and especially his landscapes, not only exemplify the joyous palette and vigorous brushwork of the genre, but they also mirror the idyllic, transient beauty of rural hamlets along the Massachusetts coast - Gloucester and Ipswich, the dual epicentres of his distinguished career. One of the original 'Duveneck boys' who studied in Munich at the Royal Academy, Wendel followed his mentor to Florence and Venice; he later went on to Paris and ultimately joined a colony of young artists at Giverny. The scenes and subject matter in the works he completed there are among the earliest by an American artist to adopt and evolve Impressionist strategies. Upon his return to America, he spent the next decades rendering scenes of the farmland and coast north of Boston that contemporary critics acclaimed as some of the best they had seen. Yet despite his talent and the significant accolades earned during his career, in the near-century following his death the recognition of his achievements has faded. The Artist Book Foundation is delighted to have the opportunity to remedy this situation with this monograph on the artist, Theodore Wendel: True Notes of American Impressionism
Laurene Buckley's years of exhaustive research inform an engaging and detailed narrative of Wendel's time in Europe
and his many years capturing the essence of the farms and fishing villages along the rural coast of Massachusetts.
Thanks to her efforts, the book will feature many of his best works, a number of which are in private collections. An
informative introduction by William H. Gerdts provides significant artistic context for Wendel and explains the artist's
deft ability to draw the viewer into a scene.

Theodore Wendel: True Notes of American Impressionism

History & Criticism

The Artist Book Foundation

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Edmund C. Tarbell: Poet of Domesticity

Hudson Hills

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858-1923) was one of the most remarkable American painters of his time. This authoritative monograph has 125 illustrations, 39 in color.

Joseph Decamp: Master Painter of the Boston School

Prestel

Since its founding at the turn of the century, the New Britain Museum of American Art has focused on collecting works by American artists. The finest paintings and sculpture from this important collection are featured in full-color reproductions in this illustrated volume. Included are many outstanding paintings by the foremost representatives of American Impressionism such as Mary Cassatt and Childe Hassam, and the famous mural series Arts of Life in America by Thomas Hart Benton. Colonial portraits and genre scenes, landscapes of the Hudson River School, African-American art from the Harlem Renaissance, and masterpieces from various nineteenth-century movements reveal the historical breadth of this collection. Color reproductions of the artworks are accompanied by biographical sketches on the artists and comprehensive essays on each of the works.

New Britain Museum of American Art: Highlights of the Collection

Prestel Pub

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