Author: Charles Coleman Sellers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Charles Willson Peale was not only one of our finest early American painters, but also the founder of the world's first popular museum of natural science and art.
Mr. Peale's Museum
Author: Charles Coleman Sellers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Charles Willson Peale was not only one of our finest early American painters, but also the founder of the world's first popular museum of natural science and art.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Charles Willson Peale was not only one of our finest early American painters, but also the founder of the world's first popular museum of natural science and art.
My Mastodon
Author: Barbara Lowell
Publisher: The Creative Company/Creative Editions
ISBN: 1684522382
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Inspired by the 19th-century lives of artist and scientist Charles Willson Peale's family, this is a tale of a girl and her favorite companion--a fossilized mastodon!
Publisher: The Creative Company/Creative Editions
ISBN: 1684522382
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Inspired by the 19th-century lives of artist and scientist Charles Willson Peale's family, this is a tale of a girl and her favorite companion--a fossilized mastodon!
The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Author: Carol Eaton Soltis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300229363
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fascinating overview of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's unparalleled and diverse collection of works by the Peale family, America's first artistic dynasty Active from the late 18th through the early 20th century, the Peale family was America's first artistic dynasty. This overview of the art of the Peales documents and interprets more than 160 works in a variety of media from the renowned collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With discussions of both internationally famous masterworks such as Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Group and lesser-known but equally engaging pictures including Rubens Peale's Magpie Eating Cake, Carol Eaton Soltis traces the family's history and reveals how the Peales' energy, innovation, and entrepreneurship paved the way for generations of American artists. Rigorously researched and generously illustrated, The Art of the Peales is an essential and wide-ranging study that considers the family's substantial output and contextualizes their historical legacy. Examining the different ways that the Peales instructed, influenced, supported, and competed with one another, this book is full of new revelations on this extraordinary family that remained a transformative force in America's cultural life for more than a century. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300229363
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fascinating overview of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's unparalleled and diverse collection of works by the Peale family, America's first artistic dynasty Active from the late 18th through the early 20th century, the Peale family was America's first artistic dynasty. This overview of the art of the Peales documents and interprets more than 160 works in a variety of media from the renowned collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With discussions of both internationally famous masterworks such as Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Group and lesser-known but equally engaging pictures including Rubens Peale's Magpie Eating Cake, Carol Eaton Soltis traces the family's history and reveals how the Peales' energy, innovation, and entrepreneurship paved the way for generations of American artists. Rigorously researched and generously illustrated, The Art of the Peales is an essential and wide-ranging study that considers the family's substantial output and contextualizes their historical legacy. Examining the different ways that the Peales instructed, influenced, supported, and competed with one another, this book is full of new revelations on this extraordinary family that remained a transformative force in America's cultural life for more than a century. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum Masters
Author: Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761991311
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Alexander brings to life the stories of twelve ambitious leaders from the United States and Europe who helped shape the future of the museum world.
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761991311
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Alexander brings to life the stories of twelve ambitious leaders from the United States and Europe who helped shape the future of the museum world.
Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes
Author: Nicolai Cikovsky (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The beautifully illustrated book, with 47 color plates, will restore Raphaelle Peale, eldest son of artist, naurtalist, and inventor Charles Willson Peale, to his rightful place in the annals of American art.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The beautifully illustrated book, with 47 color plates, will restore Raphaelle Peale, eldest son of artist, naurtalist, and inventor Charles Willson Peale, to his rightful place in the annals of American art.
From Slave Ship to Harvard
Author: James H. Johnston
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823239500
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A true story of six generations of an African American family in Maryland. Based on paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories, the book traces Yarrow Mamout and his in-laws, the Turners, from the colonial period through the Civil War to Harvard and finally the present day.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823239500
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A true story of six generations of an African American family in Maryland. Based on paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories, the book traces Yarrow Mamout and his in-laws, the Turners, from the colonial period through the Civil War to Harvard and finally the present day.
Of Arms and Artists
Author: Paul Staiti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632864673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic. The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons, serving as historical documents and timeless reminders of the nation's unprecedented beginnings. As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period--Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit. Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history they were living through by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn. Their imagery has connected Americans to 1776, allowing us to interpret and reinterpret the nation's beginning generation after generation. The collective stories of these five artists open a fresh window on the Revolutionary era, making more human the figures we have long honored as our Founders, and deepening our understanding of the whirlwind out of which the United States emerged.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632864673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic. The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons, serving as historical documents and timeless reminders of the nation's unprecedented beginnings. As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period--Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit. Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history they were living through by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn. Their imagery has connected Americans to 1776, allowing us to interpret and reinterpret the nation's beginning generation after generation. The collective stories of these five artists open a fresh window on the Revolutionary era, making more human the figures we have long honored as our Founders, and deepening our understanding of the whirlwind out of which the United States emerged.
The Poison Place
Author: Mary E. Lyons
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689811462
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689811462
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death.
The Art of American Still Life
Author: Mark DeSaussure Mitchell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300204117
Category : Still-life painting, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Audubon to Warhol: the art of American still life, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 27, 2015-January 10, 2016"--Title page verso.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300204117
Category : Still-life painting, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Audubon to Warhol: the art of American still life, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 27, 2015-January 10, 2016"--Title page verso.
Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose
Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022663910X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022663910X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon