Presents the more than 240 works from the collection of Leonard Andrews. These works center around one model, Helga Testorf, a neighbor in Chadds Ford, that Wyeth worked on in virtual secrecy for a decade and a half
A leading figure in American art scholarship, John Wilmerding has been instrumental in the acceptance of American painting as a special area of art history, and has brought many eighteenth-and nineteenth-century American artists to public attention. American Views is a richly illustrated anthology of his work.
This expanded edition includes works added to the Gallery collection since the 1980s, a decade of astonishing growth. Enjoy large colorplates and detailed commentaries describing eleven newly acquired works, including Rembrandt Peale's Ruben Peale with Geranium , Edward Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom, Mary Cassatt's Little Girl in a Blue Armchair , Edward Hopper's Cape Cod Evening , Martin Johnson Heade's Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds , Thomas Eakins's Baby at Play , James McNeill Whistler's, Wapping on Thames , George Bellows's Club Night , Barnett Newman's Stations of the Cross , others. 10" x 9 1/2". Color plates.
No damage to book, Black DJ has light shelfware. Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket. 10 1/4 By 12`` NO International.
In the third quarter of the nineteenth century some of the most beautiful and compelling of all American paintings were executed in a style now called luminism, for its depiction of the radiant effects of light and atmosphere. Many were by Frederic Edwin Church, perhaps the crucial artist of the period. In this lavishly illustrated book, John Wilmerding and eight other scholars explore the nature and implications of the luminist movement and its relationship to American political and cultural history. This work was first published in 1980 by the National Gallery of Art in conjunction with a major exhibition under the same title.