Author : Lisa N. Peters
Publisher : Hudson Hills Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN :
John Twachtman (1853-1902) was one of the most modern American painters of his day, combining European and American influences to create his own highly individual style noted for its contemplative mood and bold immediacy of composition.
Author : Lisa N. Peters
Publisher : IRA Spanierman Gallery
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Lisa Peters
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2021-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780578944425
John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) reached artistic maturity while living in Greenwich, Connecticut. There he created the paintings of his home and property that would earn him the reputation as the most original of the leading American Impressionists. This volume, accompanying an exhibition held at the Greenwich Historical Society, presents a new approach to Twachtman's Greenwich oeuvre, treating it as a unified project encompassing both the modifications the artist made to his home and the land surrounding it, and the images he derived from this subject matter.Incorporating insights gleaned from architectural study of Twachtman's house -- still extant -- Life and Art establishes a new detailed chronology of Twachtman's Greenwich paintings, revealing a progression in the artist's relationship to his subject. Following early attempts to harmonize his home with the surrounding landscape through painting, gradually Twachtman wielded control over the land and architecture itself. In this self-created world, the artist blended his painting life and home life into a beautiful whole. Illustrated with artworks from the exhibition and other examples from Twachtman's Greenwich years, Life and Art sets forth a new paradigm for considering the artist's relationship to home and work.
Author : National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
This volume features artists who brought a new sophistication and elegancento American art in the three decades before World War I. Wealthyndustrialists eager to acquire culture began to patronize native artists whoad achieved international recognition. John Singer Sargent, Irving Wiles andecilia Beaux created portraits of these new patrons, while John La Farge andugustus Saint-Gaudens made luxurious adornments for their homes. One groupf painters - including Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frederick Arthur Bridgman,enry Ossawa Tanner and Charles Sprague Pearce - responded especially to theascnation with exotic Middle Eastern, Egyptian or "Oriental" cultures thatharacterized this age of international imperialism. The educated and refinedspects of Gilded Age culture are expressed here in Renaissance-inspiredaintings by Abbott Thayer and Mary Cassatt. Romantic literary works byisionary Albert Pinkham Ryder symbolize the idealized strivings of thiseneration, while the rugged masculine landscapes of Winslow Homer emblemizehe struggle and conflict that marked this period of contending social and
Author : Marc Simpson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transcience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - this book explores this painterly phenomenon.
Author : Lisa N. Peters
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : David Adams Cleveland
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9780988902220
A History of American Tonalism: 1880-1920 will change standard theory on American art history with a new paradigm that places the origins of American modernism in the late 1870s. Crucially, it also demonstrates how the Tonalist movement became the driving force in the development of a distinctly American art form: mystic, visionary, and nostalgic, yet essentially modern in its progressive dynamic of non-narrative abstraction--a fundamentally expressive and symbolic art that set its seal on American art then and now. --Book Jacket.
Author : Susan Behrends Frank
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
Luminous works by Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, John Henry Twachtman, are among the 100 seminal works featured in this book showcasing 27 artists. As members of the first generation of American painters to absorb the technique, brighter palette, and subject matter of Impressionism from their French counterparts, these artists transformed the heroic American landscape into a modern idiom, in atmospheric park and beach scenes, urban views, and charming interiors, with particular interest in optical effects, light, and the seasons. This book provides a vivid summary of the movement, starting with its roots in earlier American art and its relationship to French Impressionism. It charts the response of many of these American artists to one of the most beloved movements in 19th century painting. All of the masterworks are here, in full color, from Hassam's sun-drenced gardens to Twachtman's snowy landscapes. It is a celebration of the Impressionist style and it's fresh interpretatiuon of America's landscapes
Author : Giles, Zeny
Publisher : Giles
Page : pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781911282853
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588390136
The Metropolitan’s renowned American Wing is where the Museum’s unsurpassed collection of American fine and decorative art is on permanent public display, from masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and drawing to exquisite examples of the finest American furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, and textiles. This handsome volume presents an overview of the collection and provides an informative walk through the American Wing’s richly furnished period rooms and stunning architectural displays. These include the magnificent marble façade of the Branch Bank of the United States—the entrance to the original American Wing when it opened in 1924—and the restored living room of a Frank Lloyd Wright prairie-style house. The comprehensive survey of paintings and sculpture begins with early colonial portraiture and from there follows the emergence and development of a national fine-arts tradition, including significant movements and genres such as the Hudson River School, neoclassical sculpture, and American Impressionism. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
