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American views, essays on American art, John Wilmerding

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index

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American views

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John Wilmerding

essays on American art

John Wilmerding has been instrumental in the acceptance of American painting as a special area of art history. In this collection of 19 essays that originally appeared in magazines or exhibition catalogs between 1968 and 1990, he places American art into its proper setting; and provides the literary, economic, philosophical, social, and political background to the works of art, helping the reader see that American art is a natural outgrowth of American ideas about the nation's identity. Among the 19th- and 20-century artists examined are Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, and George Bellows. ISBN 0-691-04090-7: $65.00 (For use only in the library)

The allure of Mount Desert -- Thomas Cole in Maine -- Winslow Homer's Maine -- American waters : the flow of imagination -- Luminism and literature -- Under chastened light : the landscape of Rhode Island -- William Bradford : artist of the Arctic -- Fire and ice in American art : polarities from luminism to abstract expressionism -- Rembrandt Peale's Rubens Peale with a geranium -- Robert Salmon's Boston patrons -- George Caleb Bingham's geometries and the shape of America -- Winslow Homer in the 1870s -- Winslow Homer's Dad's coming -- Winslow Homer's Right and left -- Thomas Eakins's late portraits -- Locating Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- John F. Peto and the idea of still-life painting in nineteenth-century America -- Images of Lincoln in John F. Peto's late paintings -- George Bellows's boxing pictures and the American tradition