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Publisher
Harvard Art Museums
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Watercolor holds a special place in the history of American art. For generations of artists, the medium has provided a space for innovation and experimentation, allowing practitioners to let their imagination loose and to reflect on process and perception. Its rise to the status of fine art in the decades following the Civil War is well documented, yet its continued role as a testing ground and means of generating new ideas throughout the twentieth...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Overview: This lively, beautifully illustrated book focuses on a group of American artists who applied Impressionist ideas and techniques to American subjects, and in so doing, they attracted and cultivated an enthusiastic American audience. These artists, including Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Theodore Robinson, William Merritt Chase, and Childe Hassam, invented a new and highly diverse formulation of the Impressionist...
Author
Publisher
Denver Art Museum
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A wide variety of artists are represented in this visual tour of the Anschutz collection, regarded as the finest group of paintings of the American West still in private hands. Troccoli examines these paintings as aesthetic objects rather than historical documents. The book coincides with the traveling exhibition starting in October in Denver. 25 b&w, 230 color illustrations. This book takes us on a connoisseur's tour of art of the Old West, guiding...
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