An illuminating look at how the Pre-Raphaelite movement was embraced by a group of vanguard American artists Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer—an English expatriate and acolyte of the hugely influential English critic John Ruskin—the American Pre-Raphaelite artists followed Ruskin’s dictum to depict nature close up and with great fidelity. Many members of the group (including Farrer, who served in the Union army during the American Civil War) were also abolitionists, and several created works with a rich political subtext. Featuring the work of artists such as Fidelia Bridges, Henry and Thomas Charles Farrer, Charles Herbert Moore, Henry Roderick Newman, and William Trost Richards, this generously illustrated volume is filled with insightful essays that explore the influence of Ruskin on the American artists, the role of watercolor and photography in their work, symbolism and veiled references to the Civil War, and much more.

The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists

Arts & Photography

Barringer, Tim

Anderson, Nancy K.

Mitchell, Mark D.

Ferber, Linda S.

Gallati, Barbara Dayer

Lynford, Sophie

Simon, Janice

Waggoner, Diane

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

In addition to being acclaimed for his magnificent paintings and watercolors, Winslow Homer is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and prolific illustrators of the nineteenth century. This volume illuminates his illustrations--an often overlooked but magnificent body of work by America's most popular nineteenth-century artist. Working in an era when photography was not yet widely used as a reproductive medium, Homer was employed between 1857 and 1875 as an artist whose images were made into wood engravings that appeared in such popular journals as Harper's Weekly, Appletons' Journal, and Every Saturday. Homer's first steps toward his transformation into the artist of haunting emotional and formal vision he later became are visible in these illustrations. Winslow Homer: Illustrating America reproduces 79 of Homer's best printed illustrations--scenes of children, of the Civil War, the coastal resorts, the Adirondacks, and others. Essay authors Gallati and Kushner discuss these works within their art historical and social contexts.

Winslow Homer: Illustrating America

Kushner, Marilyn S.

Individual Artists

George Braziller

The Collector's Eye: The Ernest Erickson Collections at the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum Bookshop

In Search of a National Landscape: William Trost Richards and the Artists' Adirondacks 1855 - 1870 accompanies the first exhibition devoted to William T. Richards's paintings of the Adirondack region, a hitherto little-known body of beautiful and important landscapes. Two essays by Linda S. Ferber and Caroline M. Welsh, chronicle Richards's discovery and interpretation of the region from the detailed wilderness landscapes of mid-century to his painterly impressions of Whiteface and Lake Placid in the late plein-air oil sketches and set Richards's work in the context of his contemporaries and colleagues who joined him in a quest for a national landscape. Generously illustrated, this volume will be of interest to art and social historians as well as collectors and those who appreciate American art.

In Search of a National Landscape: William Trost Richards and the Artists' Adirondacks, 1850-1870

Welsh, Caroline M.

Museum

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Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise

Hudson Hills Pr

Illustrating fifty of the best American marine paintings from the New York Historical Society, this volume covers a variety of themes, from battles and heroes, to work and play at sea. Author Linda S. Ferber sets the scene with an absorbing essay on the development of maritime art in the United States.

The Coast & the Sea: Marine and Maritime Art in America: At the New-York Historical Society

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