The book discusses and reproduces more than two hundred paintings, watercolors, and drawings that span Homer's career, all of which are discussed in entries by Cikovsky and Kelly. It begins with the Civil War paintings that first brought Homer's remarkable artistic mentality to public attention, in which he movingly expressed the profound implications the war held for the nation. Homer's interest in national themes is further explored in his works of the later 1860s and 1870s, which embraced a wide spectrum of American life. His shift toward more idealized and heroic imagery and his withdrawal to a solitary life at Prout's Neck, Maine, in the 1880s are discussed as turning points leading to the great achievements of his last two decades. After considering his beautiful late watercolors of the Tropics and the Adirondacks, and his monumental Prout's Neck seascapes, the book concludes with a reassessment of the tragic, almost visionary paintings of his last years. The book is also the catalogue for a major exhibition on Homer's works, opening at the National Gallery of Art on 15 October 1995 and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Winslow Homer

Arts & Photography

Kelly, Franklin

Cikovsky Jr., Nicolai

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford

<div> Sanford Gifford (1823-1880), a leading Hudson River School landscape painter and a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was so esteemed by the New York art world that, at his untimely death, the Museum mounted a show of his work--the first monographic exhibition accorded any artist--and published a Memorial Catalogue that, for nearly a century, remained the principal source on his oeuvre. Gifford's art, which was inspired by the work of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, and by that of J. M. W. Turner, and was enriched by his travels in Europe (from 1855 to 1857, and from 1868 to 1869), came to be called "air painting," for he made the ambient light of each scene--color saturated and atmospherically potent--the key to its expression. His approach to painting and his unique style gave rise to a highly distinctive body of work, of enchanting and mesmerizing effect. While Gifford himself compiled a "List of Chief Pictures" late in his career, a significant part of his extant oeuvre consists of small-scale studies, preparatory works in oil, and original drawings, most of which are in annotated sketchbooks and document the progression from on-site record to idealized vision achieved in his major pictures. The four essays that open the catalogue--which accompanies the first exhibition of Gifford's work since 1970--examine the artist's place in the Hudson River School (Franklin Kelly), his numerous Catskill Mountain subjects (Kevin J. Avery), his experiences and perceptions as a traveler both at home and abroad (Heidi Applegate), and the variety of his patrons (Eleanor Jones Harvey). Following are entries by Avery and Kelly that discuss in detail the seventy paintings by the artist in the exhibition; each is shown in color and many are supplemented by comparative illustrations of related works by Gifford, his Hudson River School mentors and colleagues, and those painters, in addition to Cole and Turner, who exerted some influence on his art--among them Frederic Edwin Church and John F. Kensett. [This book was originally published in 2003 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.] </div>

Avery, Kevin J.

Conway, Claire A.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Book by Adams, Celeste Marie, Kelly, Franklin, Tyler, Ron

America: Art and the West

Tyler, Ron

Adams, Celeste Marie

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

In his more than forty years as a scholar and teacher of American art, John Wilmerding (currently professor at Princeton University and formerly deputy director at the National Gallery of Art, Washington) has assembled a collection of fifty-one exceptional paintings and drawings by nineteenth-century American landscape artists who have been of particular scholarly interest to him. American Masters from Bingham to Eakins, which accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, is the first book to present and document this important collection, and will be widely welcomed by students, scholars and admirers of American art. collection includes superb examples by Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Edwin Church, John F. Peto, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eakins. the book features a comprehensive catalogue of the collection with detailed descriptions of each work, information on provenance and exhibition history, and large-format illustrations.

American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection

Anderson, Nancy K.

Chotner, Deborah

Brock, Charles M.

Sprague, Abbie N.

Lund Humphries Pub Ltd

Traces the life and career of the nineteenth-century American landscape artist, shows Church's most important paintings, and discusses his influences and technique

FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH CL

Gould, Stephen Jay.

Ryan, James Anthony

Rindge, Debora

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Smithsonian

Recounts the life and career of church, shows examples of his landscapes, and discusses the influence of his teacher, Thomas Cole

Frederic Edwin Church and the National Landscape (New Directions in American Art)

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

Missing dust jacket but very good condition

Frederic Edwin Church and the national landscape (New directions in American art)

Smithsonian Institution Press

Traces the early development of the American artist's career as a landscape painter and analyzes his paintings

The Early Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, 1845-1854 (Anne Burnett Tandy Lectures in American Civilization)

Carr, Gerald L.

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art

Church, Frederick Edwin

Architecture

Univ of Texas Pr

Thomas Cole's Paintings of Eden

Barry, Claire M.

Individual Artists

Amon Carter Museum

In no era in the history of Western art have so many artists invested so much thought and passion in the depiction of the physical conditions of the world as the nineteenth century. This volume is filled with spectacular landscape paintings by the Hudson River school artists Bierstadt (Lake Lucerne), Church (Morning in the Tropics), Cole, and Durand. Numerous marine paintings, Heade's view of nature, several portraits by Eakins, and Homer's critically acclaimed Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) are included as well, thoughtfully presented and richly illustrated.

American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century (A ^APublication of the National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Princeton University Press

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