In 19th-century America the landscape oil sketch emerged as a finished work of art, worthy of exhibition and sale. This work concentrates on such leading landscape painters as Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Cole. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the smaller, more immediate oil sketch as both a marketing tool for the resulting large studio painting and an artistic genre. Featuring colour reproductions and archival photographs, the work follows great artists on their travels to sketch grand ...
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In 19th-century America the landscape oil sketch emerged as a finished work of art, worthy of exhibition and sale. This work concentrates on such leading landscape painters as Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Cole. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the smaller, more immediate oil sketch as both a marketing tool for the resulting large studio painting and an artistic genre. Featuring colour reproductions and archival photographs, the work follows great artists on their travels to sketch grand landscapes, and charts public interest in both the artists' journeys and the sketches.
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VG, slight wear to extremities. Color wraps. 300 pp. Profuse color and bw plates. Annotated catalogue of 91 works-19th century oil sketches-with five chapters: "The Artist in the Field", "The Alchemy of the Studio", "The Oil Sketch on Display", "Collecting the Painted Sketch", and "The Oil Sketch as Art". This is the first volume to focus on the sketches of major American artists of that period. Beautiful illustrations by artists such as Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Daniel Huntingdon, John Frederick Kensett, Jaspar Francis Cropsey, Jervis McEntee, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Albert Bierstadt, and Worthington Whittredge. A stunning look at plein air painting in 19th-century American Art. Published to accompany the exhbition held in Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, June 21 to Sept. 20, 1998, two other locations.
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Fine. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 299pp, quarto, hc w/jacket, tight binding, clean and colorful throughout, clean boards with sharp corners, clean and colorful jacket with mild shelf wear.
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Near Fine in near fine jacket. Inscribed by Harvey on the titlepage. First edition, 1998. Quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 299 pp., illustrated (much in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, previous owner's signature in ink on the front flyleaf, light creasing to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
