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xxvii, 717 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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PERIOD TWO: THE PROVINCIAL [Division four: The Federal Era-1790-1830] The new nation -- A returning master / Gilbert Stuart -- An influx of foreigners / Signior Rossetti, M. Du Snaw, Geslain the Younger, Belzons, Joseph Perovani and Jacint Cocchi, Archibald Robertson, Alexander Robertson, Martin, Weaver, Woolley, John Roberts, Francis Martin Drexel, Pietro Ancora, James Sharples, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin -- The popularity of the miniature / Foreign-born: Walter Robertson, Robert Field, Jean Pierre Henri Elouis, Edward Miles, M. Maras; Native-born: Joseph Wood, Nathaniel Rogers, Sarah Goodridge, Anson Dickinson, Daniel Dickinson, Samuel H. Dearborn, Benjamin Trott, James Peale, Charles Fraser, Edward Greene Malbone -- Portraiture in the oil medium / Boston: John Johnston, Christian Gullager, Henry Sargent, James Frothingham ; Connecticut: Ralph Earl ; New York: John Wesley Jarvis, Samuel Lovett Waldo, William Jewett ; Philadelphia: John Eckstein, Charles Willson Peale, Jacob Eichholtz, Thomas Sully ; Washington: Charles Bird King ; The Old South: James Warrell, John B. Martin, Phillippe Abraham, Peticolas, Edward F. Peticolas, James Earl ; The Cotton South: Ralph Eleazer Whitesides Earl, Nathan Negus, Eliab Metcalf, José de Salazar ; The Old West: Matthew Harris Jouett, John Grimes -- Forms strengthened by the foreign-born / Still-life: Cornelius de Beet, James Cox ; History: Denis A. Volozon, Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller ; Anecdote: Charles Catton, John Lewis Krimmel ; Topographical views: William Russell Birch, Joshua Shaw, William Guy Wall, John Rubens Smith, William James Bennett ; Panorama and scene painting: William Winstanley, Cotton Milbourne, John Joseph Holland, James Coyle, Michele Felice Corné ; Landscape: William Groombridge, John James Barralet, George Beck, Francis Guy -- Forms developed by the native-born / Anecdote: Bass Otis, David Claypoole Johnston, Henry Sargent ; Landscape: Charles Fraser, Ralph Earl, Alvan Fisher, William Dunlap ; Panorama: John Trumbull, Henry Smith Mount, Asa Park, Charles Bird King, James Peale, Raphaelle Peale -- The summit of a useful life / Charles Willson Peale -- History painting / Edward Savage, John Trumbull, John Vanderlyn, Jeremiah Paul, Henry Sargent, William Dunlap, Rembrandt Peale -- An artist of impulse / Washington Allston -- An artist of forethought / Samuel Finley Breese Morse -- The first effective art organizations -- Artisans and amateurs of the Federal Era / Benjamin H. Severance, Hill, William Clarke, George Rutter, George Ropes, L. Whitney, John Ritto Penniman, John A. Woodside , Thomas Hanford Wentworth, Moses Morse, Samuel S. Rooker, J. Atwood, Theorem painting, Jane Stuart, Lydia Hosmer, Mary Ann Bacon, Eunice Pinney, Cephas Thompson, George Washington Parke Custis, John Blake White, John Stevens Cogdell, Joshua Johnston -- Retrospect from the year 1830 / Alexander Wilson, Titian Ramsay Peale, Charles Robert Leslie -- [Division five: The mid-century-1830 to 1860] The reign of the genteel -- The decline of the miniature / Charles Fraser, Thomas Seir Cummings, Richard Morrell Staigg, Ann Hall, Henry Colton Shumway -- Mid-century portraiture / The basic average: Nathaniel Jocelyn, Thomas Le Clear, James Reid Lambdin, John Beale Bordley, Robert Matthew Sully, James Bogle, Oliver Fazer, Allen Smith ; Mechanistic finish: Seth Wells Cheney, Gennarino Persico, Charles Cromwell Ingham, Joseph Fagnani ; The cotton South: Francisco Bernard, Jacques Amans, Jean Joseph Vaudechamp, Thomas Cantwell Healy, George Dury ; The Old West: Manuel Joachim de Franca, Theodore Sydney Moise, Thomas Trevor Fowler, Joseph H. Bush, Robert S. Duncanson, Alfred Payne, Jacob Cox, Alvah Bradish, Samuel Marsden Brookes, Bernard Isaac Durward ; The Old South: George Cooke, William Garl Browne, William James Hubard, James De Veaux ; The East: Henry Inman, Thomas Sully, John Neagle, Charles Loring Elliott, Thomas Hicks, Chester Harding, George Peter Alexander Healy -- Mid-century landscape / Thomas Birch, James Hamilton, Robert Salmon, Fitz Hugh Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, Thomas Doughty, Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, John William Casilear, John Frederick Kensett, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Jervis McEntee, David Johnson, William McDougall Hart, James McDougall Hart, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Worthington Whittredge, Regis François Gignoux, George Inness -- The popularity of the panorama / Frederick Catherwood, John Rowson Smith, John Banvard, Henry Lewis John, J. Egan, Thomas Coke Ruckle, James F. Harris, John Insco Williams -- Painters of the Amerind / George Catlin, Seth Eastman, Alfred Jacob Miller, John Mix Stanley, Frank Blackwell Mayer, Car Wimar -- Painters into distant regions / Texas: T. Jefferson Wright, Herman Lungkwitz, Richard Petrie, Mrs. Louise Heuser Wueste, Mrs. Charles Lavender, Theodore Gentilz ; California: Alburtis De Orient Brownere, Norton Bush, Samuel Stillman Osgood, William Smith Jewett, David Daloff Neal, Charles Christian Nahl -- Mid-century art organizations -- Mid-century history painting / John Gadsby Chapman, Robert Walter Weir, William Henry Powell, James Walker, Emanuel Leutze, Junius Brutus Stearns, Dennis Malone Carter, Peter Frederick Rothermel, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, Daniel Huntington, Christian Schulssele, Mark Robert Harrison, George Caleb Bingham -- Mid-century anecdote / William Sidney Mount, William Ranney, Tompkins Harrison Matteson, Edward Troye, William Holbrook Beard, James Henry Beard, David Gilmor Blythe -- The mid-century concept of imagination / Henry Peters Gray, William Page, Thomas Chambers, John Quidor -- Mid-century still-life / Anna Claypoole Peale, Margaretta Angelica Peale, Sarah Miriam Peal, Rubens Peale, John F. Francis -- Painters working for reproduction / Robert Havell, John William Hill, William James Bennett, Nicolino V. Dalyo, Geroge Harvey, William Henry Bartlett, John James Audubon, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Thomas Addison Richards, Lilly Martin Spencer, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, George Henry Durrie -- Mid-century artisans and amateurs / Sign painting, Ship portraits, Sebastian Heine, T. H. O. P. Burnham, Lewis Miller, Shaker texts, J. S. Hathaway, William Swain, Louis Joseph Bahin, Mrs. Stephen Rumble, Monochromatic drawings, Mourning pieces, James Sanford Ellsworth, Josiah Brown King, Joseph H. Davis, I. Bradley, Joseph H. Hidley, Anon.: The Quilting Party, Anon.: The Runaway Horse, Edward Hicks, Joseph W. Stock, James Bard, William Matthew Prior, Rufus Porter -- Mid-century dilettantes / Francis William Edmonds, Walter M. Oddie, Thomas Buchanan Read, Bayard Taylor, Christopher Pearse Cranch, John Landis, Sylvester Genin -- Retrospect from the year 1860 / William Edward West, Miner K. Kellogg, Richard Caton Woodville, Edward Harrison May, George Loring Brown, Cephas Giovanni Thompson, William Stanley Haseltine, John Rollin Tilton, Francis Alexander -- [Division six: Aftermath of the Civil War-1860-1880] The age of plunder -- Painting in the remoter regions / The South: Fisher, Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume, John A. Elder, William L. Sheppard, Conrad Wise Chapman ; Texas: H. A. McArdle, "Trader Horn" (Alfred Aloysius Smith) ; California: Fortunato Ariola, Ivan Buckingham Wandersforde, De Francheville Erneste Narjot, Jules Tavernier -- Postwar portraiture / Alonzo Chappell, Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Daniel Huntington -- Postwar history painting / Constantino Brumidi, William De La Montagne Cary, Henry F. Farny, John Mulvaney -- Postwar anecdote / Johannes Adam Oertle, Archibald M. Willard, John George Brown, Thomas Waterman Wood, Edward Lamson Henry -- Postwar artisans and amateurs / Anon., Joseph Becker, A. Persac, Hunt P. Wilson, James Whitcomb Riley, Lew Wallace, Ernest Wadsworth Longellow, Erastus Salisbury Field -- Postwar still-life / Andrew John Henry Way, Severin Roesen, George Henry Hall, Walter M. Brackett, Constantino Brumidi, Filippo Costaggini, William Michael Harnett, Jefferson David Chalfant, John Frederick Peto, John Haberle -- Grandiloquent landscape / Frederick Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, Thomas Moran Lesser landscape / James David Smillie, George Henry Smillie, Robert Swain Gifford, Samuel Colman, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Albert Fitch Bellows, William Rickaby Miller, William Trost Richards -- Poetic landscape / George Inness, Alexander Helwig Wyant, Homer Dodge Martin, Ralph Albert Blakelock -- Poetic figure painting / Jonathan Eastman Johnson, George Fuller, Robert Loftin Newman, William Morris Hunt -- The transformation of nature / Albert Pinkham Ryder -- The transcription of nature / Winslow Homer -- The renewal of nature / Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins -- Conclusion. |
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PERIOD ONE: THE COLONIAL. [Division one: Colonial beginnings-to 1725 / The retablos] -- Exploration, conquest, and settlement -- Protestantism and art -- Early Virginia -- The first century in Massachusetts -- The artisan painter / William Johnes, John Gibbs, Thomas Child -- The amateur painter / Joseph Allen -- The signs -- Portraits by artisans and amateurs / Anon.: John Endecott, John Foster, Anon.: ?Thomas Thacher, Anon.: William Stoughton ; Anon.: Mrs. Anne Pollard ; Anon.: Mrs. Elizabeth Wensley -- The master of the freaks / Anon.: John Freake; Mrs. Freake and Baby Mary -- Portraits of children / Anon.: Margaret Gibbs, Robert Gibbs; Henry Gibbs ; Anon.: Alice Mason; David, Joanna and Abigail Mason -- Anticipation of studio technique / Anon.: John Woodbridge ; Anon.: Mrs. James Pierpoint ; Thomas Smith ; J. Cooper -- The central colonies / Henri Couturier. Anon.: Nicholas William Stuyvesant ; Anon.: David Provoost; Mrs. David Provoost ; Evert Duyckinck the First ; Gerardus Duyckinck the Second (?) ; Evert Duyckinck the Third ; Gerret Duychkinck ; Hudson Valley master ; Christopher Witt -- The South / Justus Engelhardt Kühn ; Anon.: Jaquelin family portraits; Brodnax family portraits ; Mrs. Henrietta Johnston ; Mrs. Elizabeth Le Serrurier ; Issac Mazyck -- Indications of a broadening taste / William Burgis. Anon.: Decorations in the Clark-Frankland house ; Nehemiah Partridge ; John Watson ; Gustavus Hesselius -- Retrospect from the year 1725 [Division two: Colonial Culmination-1725 to 1775] The emergence of an upper class -- A conscious taste in painting / Nathaniel Emmons ; John Mare -- Specialists into New England / Peter Pelham ; John Smibert -- Specialists into the central colonies / Anon.: De Peyster Children Portraits; Van Cortlandt Child Portraits ; Lawrence Kilburn ; John Watson, Gustavus Hesselius ; William Williams -- Specialist in the South / Charles Bridges ; Jeremiah Theüs -- The spread of foreign fashion / Joseph Blackburn ; John Wollaston ; Cosmo John Alexander -- A native-born talent / Robert Feke -- More native-born / Boston: Joseph Badger, Thomas Johnston, John Greenwood, Nathaniel Smibert – Philadephia: James Claypoole, John Meng, John Hesselius -- A native-born genius / John Singleton Copley, Henry Pelham -- Important stylistic beginnings / Charles Willson Peale, John Trumbull, Ralph Earl, Gilbert Stuart, Matthew Pratt, Benjamin West -- More artisans and amateurs / William Faris, Bernard Wilton, Benjamin Blyth, Cosmo Medici, George Mason, John Durand, Alexander Gordon, Francis Hopkinson, Peter Precour, John and Hamilton Stevenson, James Smither -- The further broadening of taste / Pastel, Miniature, Conversation pieces, Anecdote: Henry Warren, Alexander Hamilton ; Still-life: Winthrop Chandler ; History: Samuel Blodgett, Henry Dawkins, Paul Revere, Bernard Romans, Anon.: A Conference of Ministers, A. Pooley, John Valentine Haidt ; Landscape: Bishop Roberts, Christian Remic, Alexander Steward, Pierre Eugène du Simitère, Albertina Ten Broeck, Anon.: View of Holyoke, Anon.: Ipswich Harbor ; Decoration: John Holliman, Samuel Rusbatch, Mr. Warwell, Anon: Decorations for 2Marmion3, Anon.: Decorations in the Warner House -- The beginning of West’s influence / Abraham Delanoy the Younger, Matthew Pratt, Charles Willson Peale, Henry Benbridge -- Retrospect from the year 1775 / Holt and Gains, John Winter. [Division three: Revolutionary transition-1775 to 1790] The disruption of the upper class / Thomas Spence Duché, Mather Brown -- Benjamin West in London -- John Singleton Copley in London -- Transition artisans and amateurs / Ignatius Shnydore, Matthew Pratt, John Mason Furness, Samuel King, Winthrop Chandler -- Fractur -- Anticipations of later developments / Joseph Wright, Robert Edge Pine, Mr. Mack, William Verstille, John Ramage, Joseph Dunkerley, Robert Fulton, Anon.: The Eidophusikon, Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 669-692) |
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Painting -- United States -- History.
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