Author: Robert R. Wark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This handsome gift volume reveals the stories behind the Huntington's best-known paintings, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough and Pinkie by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Purchased by Henry E. Huntington in the 1920s, the two masterpieces have resided together in the railroad magnate's mansion-turned-art gallery in San Marino, California, for more than seventy years. Who were the children in these paintings and why did these leading artists choose them as subjects? These and many other intriguing questions are answered by renowned art historian Robert R. Wark. Sixteen color plates feature Pinkie and the Blue Boy as well as other related paintings.
The Blue Boy [and] Pinkie
Author: Robert R. Wark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This handsome gift volume reveals the stories behind the Huntington's best-known paintings, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough and Pinkie by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Purchased by Henry E. Huntington in the 1920s, the two masterpieces have resided together in the railroad magnate's mansion-turned-art gallery in San Marino, California, for more than seventy years. Who were the children in these paintings and why did these leading artists choose them as subjects? These and many other intriguing questions are answered by renowned art historian Robert R. Wark. Sixteen color plates feature Pinkie and the Blue Boy as well as other related paintings.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This handsome gift volume reveals the stories behind the Huntington's best-known paintings, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough and Pinkie by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Purchased by Henry E. Huntington in the 1920s, the two masterpieces have resided together in the railroad magnate's mansion-turned-art gallery in San Marino, California, for more than seventy years. Who were the children in these paintings and why did these leading artists choose them as subjects? These and many other intriguing questions are answered by renowned art historian Robert R. Wark. Sixteen color plates feature Pinkie and the Blue Boy as well as other related paintings.
Pinkie Promises
Author: Elizabeth Warren
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250860938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Polly knows she's strong and capable. But whenever she offers to help her uncle or brother or neighbor, they tell her: "That's not what girls do." Then one day, Polly goes to a rally to meet a woman who's running for president, and they make a pinkie promise to remember all the things that girls do. Polly carries that promise with her at school, onto the soccer field, and even into an election for Class President! This inspiring story will encourage young readers to dream big. Godwin Books
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250860938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Polly knows she's strong and capable. But whenever she offers to help her uncle or brother or neighbor, they tell her: "That's not what girls do." Then one day, Polly goes to a rally to meet a woman who's running for president, and they make a pinkie promise to remember all the things that girls do. Polly carries that promise with her at school, onto the soccer field, and even into an election for Class President! This inspiring story will encourage young readers to dream big. Godwin Books
Kehinde Wiley
Author: Melinda McCurdy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646570201
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: a portrait of a young gentleman, organized by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Malik Gaines investigates the artist's post-modern strategy of inserting Black subjects into canonical European settings. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell situates Wiley's work within the traditions and trappings of grand manner eighteenth-century portraiture"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646570201
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: a portrait of a young gentleman, organized by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Malik Gaines investigates the artist's post-modern strategy of inserting Black subjects into canonical European settings. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell situates Wiley's work within the traditions and trappings of grand manner eighteenth-century portraiture"--
Duveen
Author: Meryle Secrest
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226744159
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Anyone who has admired Gainsborough's Blue Boy of the Huntington Collection in California, or Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owes much of his or her pleasure to art dealer Joseph Duveen (1869–1939). Regarded as the most influential—or, in some circles, notorious—dealer of the twentieth century, Duveen established himself selling the European masterpieces of Titian, Botticelli, Giotto, and Vermeer to newly and lavishly wealthy American businessmen—J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Mellon, to name just a few. It is no exaggeration to say that Duveen was the driving force behind every important private art collection in the United States. The first major biography of Duveen in more than fifty years and the first to make use of his enormous archive—only recently opened to the public—Meryle Secrest's Duveen traces the rapid ascent of the tirelessly enterprising dealer, from his humble beginnings running his father's business to knighthood and eventually apeerage. The eldest of eight sons of Jewish-Dutch immigrants, Duveen inherited an uncanny ability to spot a hidden treasure from his father, proprietor of a prosperous antiques business. After his father's death, Duveen moved the company into the riskier but lucrative market of paintings and quickly became one of the world's leading art dealers. The key to Duveen's success was his simple observation that while Europe had the art, America had the money; Duveen made his fortune by buying art from declining European aristocrats and selling them to the "squillionaires" in the United States. "By far the best account of Joseph Duveen's life in a biography that is rich in detail, scrupulously researched, and sympathetically written. [Secrest's] inquiries into early-twentieth-century collecting whet our appetite for a more general history of the art market in the first half of the twentieth century."—John Brewer, New York Review of Books
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226744159
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Anyone who has admired Gainsborough's Blue Boy of the Huntington Collection in California, or Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owes much of his or her pleasure to art dealer Joseph Duveen (1869–1939). Regarded as the most influential—or, in some circles, notorious—dealer of the twentieth century, Duveen established himself selling the European masterpieces of Titian, Botticelli, Giotto, and Vermeer to newly and lavishly wealthy American businessmen—J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Mellon, to name just a few. It is no exaggeration to say that Duveen was the driving force behind every important private art collection in the United States. The first major biography of Duveen in more than fifty years and the first to make use of his enormous archive—only recently opened to the public—Meryle Secrest's Duveen traces the rapid ascent of the tirelessly enterprising dealer, from his humble beginnings running his father's business to knighthood and eventually apeerage. The eldest of eight sons of Jewish-Dutch immigrants, Duveen inherited an uncanny ability to spot a hidden treasure from his father, proprietor of a prosperous antiques business. After his father's death, Duveen moved the company into the riskier but lucrative market of paintings and quickly became one of the world's leading art dealers. The key to Duveen's success was his simple observation that while Europe had the art, America had the money; Duveen made his fortune by buying art from declining European aristocrats and selling them to the "squillionaires" in the United States. "By far the best account of Joseph Duveen's life in a biography that is rich in detail, scrupulously researched, and sympathetically written. [Secrest's] inquiries into early-twentieth-century collecting whet our appetite for a more general history of the art market in the first half of the twentieth century."—John Brewer, New York Review of Books
Blue Boy & Co.
Author: Catherine Hess
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 379135468X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
2017 PubWest Book Design Bronze Award Winner for Art Book This book offers a celebration of one of America’s most important collections of European art, housed in The Huntington, among the world’s great cultural, research, and educational centers. Gainsborough’s Blue Boy is just one of the masterpieces contained in the Huntington Galleries—the first public collection of Old Master painting, sculpture, and decorative arts in Southern California, and among the most important collections of British Grand Manner portraits anywhere. Over one hundred of the most impressive works housed at The Huntington, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and works on paper, are published together for the first time in this handsome catalog. Breathtaking in their range, these works are presented in a dynamic format that juxtaposes medium, style, and cultural origin. The result is a visually stunning selection of European masterpieces that will serve as both a guide to The Huntington's collection and an enlightening compendium for anyone interested in European art.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 379135468X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
2017 PubWest Book Design Bronze Award Winner for Art Book This book offers a celebration of one of America’s most important collections of European art, housed in The Huntington, among the world’s great cultural, research, and educational centers. Gainsborough’s Blue Boy is just one of the masterpieces contained in the Huntington Galleries—the first public collection of Old Master painting, sculpture, and decorative arts in Southern California, and among the most important collections of British Grand Manner portraits anywhere. Over one hundred of the most impressive works housed at The Huntington, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and works on paper, are published together for the first time in this handsome catalog. Breathtaking in their range, these works are presented in a dynamic format that juxtaposes medium, style, and cultural origin. The result is a visually stunning selection of European masterpieces that will serve as both a guide to The Huntington's collection and an enlightening compendium for anyone interested in European art.
Pink
Author: Valerie Steele
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500022269
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated volume explores the cultural history, especially in fashion, of the color pink from the 18th century to today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500022269
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated volume explores the cultural history, especially in fashion, of the color pink from the 18th century to today.
The Huntington
Author: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The treasures of the Huntington—literary, historic, artistic, and botanical—are captured in this beautiful volume. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 130 full-color photographs and containing a wealth of information about the collections, the book is both a pictorial treat and a fascinating resource for anyone wanting to learn more about the Huntington.
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The treasures of the Huntington—literary, historic, artistic, and botanical—are captured in this beautiful volume. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 130 full-color photographs and containing a wealth of information about the collections, the book is both a pictorial treat and a fascinating resource for anyone wanting to learn more about the Huntington.
Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Ponypalooza Party!
Author: G. M. Berrow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424257621
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"When the family rock farm is in trouble, Pinkie Pie tries to help in the best way she knows how--by planning a Ponyville "rock" concert: Ponypalooza! The part will be super-duper cool and is sure to save the farm. But ... Pinkie's family doesn't like the idea and wants her to be serious for once in her life. What's a pony to do?"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424257621
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"When the family rock farm is in trouble, Pinkie Pie tries to help in the best way she knows how--by planning a Ponyville "rock" concert: Ponypalooza! The part will be super-duper cool and is sure to save the farm. But ... Pinkie's family doesn't like the idea and wants her to be serious for once in her life. What's a pony to do?"--Page 4 of cover.
A Natural History of Color
Author: Rob DeSalle
Publisher: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 9781643134420
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A star curator at the American Museum of Natural History widens the palette and shows how the physical, natural, and cultural context of color are inextricably tied to what we see right before our eyes. Is color a phenomenon of science or a thing of art? Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see, embraced through the experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, on and on, a vivid and vibrant celebrated continuum. These turns to represent reality in “living color” echo our evolutionary reliance on and indeed privileging of color as a complex and vital form of consumption, classification, and creation. It’s everywhere we look, yet do we really know much of anything about it? Finding color in stars and light, examining the system of classification that determines survival through natural selection, studying the arrival of color in our universe and as a fulcrum for philosophy, DeSalle’s brilliant A Natural History of Color establishes that an understanding of color on many different levels is at the heart of learning about nature, neurobiology, individualism, even a philosophy of existence. Color and a fine tuned understanding of it is vital to understanding ourselves and our consciousness.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 9781643134420
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A star curator at the American Museum of Natural History widens the palette and shows how the physical, natural, and cultural context of color are inextricably tied to what we see right before our eyes. Is color a phenomenon of science or a thing of art? Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see, embraced through the experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, on and on, a vivid and vibrant celebrated continuum. These turns to represent reality in “living color” echo our evolutionary reliance on and indeed privileging of color as a complex and vital form of consumption, classification, and creation. It’s everywhere we look, yet do we really know much of anything about it? Finding color in stars and light, examining the system of classification that determines survival through natural selection, studying the arrival of color in our universe and as a fulcrum for philosophy, DeSalle’s brilliant A Natural History of Color establishes that an understanding of color on many different levels is at the heart of learning about nature, neurobiology, individualism, even a philosophy of existence. Color and a fine tuned understanding of it is vital to understanding ourselves and our consciousness.
Burying Pinkie Pie
Author: David Sparks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549933820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
What will a 17-year-old boy do for first love? What won't he do?Wendell Wolfe, new to Florida's Banyan Island, launches a plot to rescue the corpse of Pinkie Pie, the 350-pound pig in which resides the spirit of the dearly departed grandmother of Samantha Granger, Wendell's first girlfriend. Before Pinkie Pie lies in sacred ground, Wendell will commit a long list of misdemeanors and felonies, saturate a Cadillac Escalade with road-kill stench, and use Pepe the Chihuahua to lure a senile alligator into the middle of a community celebration.And best of all -- he'll get the girl!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549933820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
What will a 17-year-old boy do for first love? What won't he do?Wendell Wolfe, new to Florida's Banyan Island, launches a plot to rescue the corpse of Pinkie Pie, the 350-pound pig in which resides the spirit of the dearly departed grandmother of Samantha Granger, Wendell's first girlfriend. Before Pinkie Pie lies in sacred ground, Wendell will commit a long list of misdemeanors and felonies, saturate a Cadillac Escalade with road-kill stench, and use Pepe the Chihuahua to lure a senile alligator into the middle of a community celebration.And best of all -- he'll get the girl!