| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xxiv, 244 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 233-244. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The colonial period -- Between two wars, the heyday of the American folk artist -- The professional portrait painter: 1780-1810, 1810-1840, 1840-1850 -- Daily life in the republic -- Genre scenes -- Landscape, seascape and townscape -- Colloquial history -- Inspiration from man -- Inspiration from God -- Art instructor and fractur maker -- The illuminator -- Art instruction for young ladies -- Folk painting from the centennial to yesterday. |
| Subject |
Portrait painting, American -- History.
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Portrait painters -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Lipman, Jean, 1909-1998.
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