Author: Rand McNally and Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A Week at the Fair
Author: Rand McNally and Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Society and solitude, 12 chapters
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Mapping the Terrain
Author: Suzanne Lacy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"In this wonderfully bold and speculative anthology of writings, artists and critics offer a highly persuasive set of argument and pleas for imaginative, socially responsible, and socially responsive public art.... "--Amazon.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"In this wonderfully bold and speculative anthology of writings, artists and critics offer a highly persuasive set of argument and pleas for imaginative, socially responsible, and socially responsive public art.... "--Amazon.
American Naive Paintings
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521443012
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
One of a series of systematic catalogues of the National Gallery of Art's collection, this comprehensive volume discusses in detail 310 objects that comprise one of the world's outstanding repositories of American naive paintings. Works by renowned folk artists such as Edward Hicks, Erastus Salisbury Field, and Ammi Phillips are represented in depth and placed in stylistic as well as historical context. This catalogue is an indispensable tool for historians of Amerian painting and folk art, and for students of American life and culture. Thorough documentation and commentary are provided for the first time on some of the most intriguing images produced in America in the past two hundred years.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521443012
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
One of a series of systematic catalogues of the National Gallery of Art's collection, this comprehensive volume discusses in detail 310 objects that comprise one of the world's outstanding repositories of American naive paintings. Works by renowned folk artists such as Edward Hicks, Erastus Salisbury Field, and Ammi Phillips are represented in depth and placed in stylistic as well as historical context. This catalogue is an indispensable tool for historians of Amerian painting and folk art, and for students of American life and culture. Thorough documentation and commentary are provided for the first time on some of the most intriguing images produced in America in the past two hundred years.
Glimpses of Fifty Years
Author: Frances Elizabeth Willard
Publisher: Chicago : Women's Temperance Publication Association
ISBN:
Category : Social reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Willard's autobiography is not only the story of an outstanding woman of the 19th century, it is the personal history of the W.C.T.U., the largest of the 19th century women's organizations.
Publisher: Chicago : Women's Temperance Publication Association
ISBN:
Category : Social reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Willard's autobiography is not only the story of an outstanding woman of the 19th century, it is the personal history of the W.C.T.U., the largest of the 19th century women's organizations.
Rochester
Author: Jenny Marsh Parker
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
ISBN:
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
ISBN:
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916
Author: James Sprunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.
Bethlehem Revisited
Author: Floyd I. Brewer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963540201
Category : Bethlehem (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963540201
Category : Bethlehem (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780894682117
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780894682117
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.