Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor

Many people consider that America's most original contribution to the history of art is in the medium of watercolour, with inventive and brilliant artists such as Sargent and Homer, LaFarge and Prendergast, Demuth and Martin, Hopper and Burchfield. Featuring 125 of the most beautiful watercolours from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this book begins with an example from the 1790s by Benjamin West, surveys the development of the medium through the 19th and early-20th centuries, and concludes with images by Andrew Wyeth from the 1940s.

Arts & Photography

Troyen, Carol

Reed, Sue Welsh

History & Criticism

Bulfinch Pr

Celebrating the great American watercolor, this unique collection of images features the work of Sargent, Homer, LaFarge, Prendergast, Demuth, Marin, Burchfield, and Hopper, among others. Original.

Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque

Though it was a medium employed by many of the leading painters of the day, few are aware of the scope and significance of Italian etching. This catalogue presents the first overview of etching in Italy from 1520 to 1700, and of its importance to the visual arts of the Renaissance, Mannerist, and Baroque periods. Printed duotone on heavy laid paper, Italian Etchers is an indispensable reference for any student or admirer of Italian art, or of the graphic arts in general.

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

Wallace, Richard W.

Graphic Design

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Awash in Color: Homer Sargent and the Great American Watercolor

French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers focuses on printmaking in Paris during the second half of the 17th century. This adventuresome age, filled with military campaigns and political intrigue, is recaptured through 126 prints by such masters as Jacques Callot, Abraham Bosse, Jacques Bellange, and the circle of Simon Vouet. The essays, written by an international group of distinguished print scholars, cover such subjects as genre, current events, portraits, architecture and landscapes, religion, allegory, and ancient history and mythology.

French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers

Russell, H. Diane

Grivel, Marianne

Préaud, Maxime

Goldstein, Carl

Clark, Alvin L.

Larkin, Graham

Folk art has been part of the American idiom for nearly as long as America has been a nation. Today it remains one of the best-loved and most fervently collected forms of American art, a diverse and authentic vernacular expression. This new soft-cover edition of American Folk presents over 60 remarkable objects from one of the country's most prominent collections of folk art. Included are paintings, carvings, textiles, prints, frakturs, furniture, and utilitarian objects, dating from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Such masterpieces as Erastus Salisbury Field's lush The Garden of Eden, E.L. George's surrealistic Child in a Rocking Chair, a complex monumental quilt by former slave Harriet Powers, and Wilhelm Schimmel's extraordinary carved animals appear alongside a remarkable assortment of whirligigs, windmills, decorated chests, figurines and even carousel dogs. Lavishly illustrated, American Folk is a vibrant and engaging introduction to one of the country's proudest cultural traditions. "Many [of these] objects are masterpieces... These works survive as intriguing, often poignant evidence of the circumstances of ordinary lives, and of the need to make art." --Deborah Weisgall, The New York Times

American Folk

Parmal, Pamela

Ward, Gerald W.R.

Duda, Abaigeal

Shallcross, Gilian Ford

MFA Publications

This large, lavish journey through the art of the 19th-century French landscape offers a host of masterful works, among them Corot's Forest of Fontainbleau, Millet's End of the Hamlet of Gruchy, Renoir's Rocky Crags at L'Estaque, and Monet's Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur. As is often the case, however, some of the most wonderful things to see are also the least expected: rare and unusual monotypes by Degas, three states of a softground etching by Pissarro, and numerous works by some of their lesser-known but equally important contemporaries. Unlike previous books on the topic, Impressions of Light presents a unique and stunningly complete group of work that introduces a new level of complexity into the discussion of French landscapes. Rather than considering the landscape as a steady, linear development and the product of a single medium, it takes into account the many crosscurrents and intersecting developments in French art, from the Barbizon school through the post-Impressionist period. In addition, it studies the landscape in a variety of media--painting, prints, and photography--exploring both the individual artists' perceptions and the ways in which they influenced each other. With over 80 paintings and 70 works on paper from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's collections, and published to accompany a major exhibition, Impressions of Light encompasses more than 100 years and 56 artists working in a dozen different media. It holds the broadest possible view, yet never loses sight of the extraordinary intricacy that makes the landscape so enduringly appealing.

Impressions Of Light: The French Landscape From Corot To Monet

Degas, Edgar

Cézanne, Paul

Wissman, Fronia E.

REDON, Odilon

Monet, Claude

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

Pissarro, Camille

Haas, Karen

Wissman, Fronia

Shackelford, George T.M.

Haas, Karen E.

Havinga, Anne

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille

Daubigny, Charles-Francois

Huet, Paul

MILLET, Jean-François

GAUGUIN, Paul.

VAN GOGH, Vincent

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Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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