The Hudson River School is really the first coherent school of American art and it helped shape the mythos of the American landscape. The artists of the School, working from 1825 to 1875, infused the American landscape with the dreams and ambitions of a young nation poised for greatness. Beginning with the works of Thomas Cole, acknowledged founder and key figure in the establishment of the School, landscape art became the prevalent genre of nineteenth-century painting. Cole, whose dramatic and colorful landscapes are among the most impressive of the group, may be said to have been its leader during the its most active years. The work of over 20 artists is included here, including paintings by Henry Inman, Jasper Cropsey, Frederic E. Church, George Inness, Sanford Gifford, Martin Johnson Heade, Albert Bierstadt, William Stanley Haseltine, and Thomas Moran.

Wilder Image Bright: Hudson River School Paintings From The Manoogian Collection

Arts & Photography

Sharp, Kevin

History & Criticism

Vero Beach Museum of Art

This guide introduces the Java 2 micro edition (J2ME) mobile information device profile (MIDP), and explains how to develop multimedia messaging service (MMS) and wireless application protocol (WAP) based thin-client applications for mobile Nokia devices. The authors discuss the Bluetooth API, optimization techniques, end-to-end design patterns, and scalability best practices, and provide an example photo viewer application, action game, and networked mobile web log. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications: A Guide For Java Developers

Computers & Technology

Yuan, Michael Juntao

Networking & Cloud Computing

Addison-Wesley

At the turn of the twentieth century, the celebrated American artist William Merritt Chase named Cecilia Beaux not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.” While Beauxunlike her contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatthas not fared well in modernist-driven art history, her work has become the subject of renewed interest on the part of art historians, collectors, and general viewers on both sides of the Atlantic, and her forty-year career represents a compelling and under-examined chapter in the history of American art. Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter is the most comprehensive appraisal of Beaux’s talent in more than three decades. This handsomely illustrated book presents a range of the artist’s strongest work and offers a fresh understanding of her career by examining critical questions of gender, class, and the importance of place. It features substantive essays which examine Beaux’s participation in the international portrait market of the 1890s, explore the artist’s professional identity and changing fortunes through a close reading of key images, investigate Beaux’s sensitivity to the framing and display of her work. An illustrated chronology of Beaux’s life and work, compiled by Alison Bechtel Wexler, completes the study. Copub: High Museum

Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter

AUERBACH, Nina

Yount, Sylvia

Bockrath, Mark

University of California Press

A major publication covering all 179 lithographs of the artist along with essays, correspondence, studies of paper and watermarks - a comprehensive reference.

The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonne

Tedeschi, Martha

Smale, Nicholas

Stratis, Harriet K.

Spink, Nesta R.

Hudson Hills

Masters of Light: Selections of American Impressionism from the Manoogian Collection

Americans were introduced to Impressionism by the French in the 1880s. They explored its expressive potential and debated its merits in the 1890s, and by the turn of the twentieth century, American painters had seized the style for their own. Masters of Light: Selections of American Impressionism from the Manoogian Collection accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by Jennifer A. Bailey and Lucinda H. Gedeon for the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Included are thirty examples of American Impressionist painting by the seminal artists who redefined the movement for American audiences, including Frank W. Benson, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Williard Leroy Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, John Singer Sargent, John Henry Twachtman, and others. Featuring contributions by some of the clearest voices and leading authorities on American Impressionism, Masters of Light brings into the spotlight brilliant and rarely seen paintings while illuminating their place in the larger currents of American art history. An essay by Kevin Sharp, "The Americanization of Impressionism," examines the unintentional circumstances and deliberate efforts that transformed Impressionism from an expression of the French vanguard into an international style, and eventually, into a peculiarly American enterprise.

Bailey, Jennifer A.

Gedeon, Lucinda H.

Americans were introduced to Impressionism by the French in the 1880s. They explored its expressive potential and debated its merits in the 1890s, and by the turn of the 20th century, American painters had seized the style for their own. Included here are thirty superb examples of American Impressionist painting by the seminal artists who redefined the movement for American audiences, including Frank W. Benson, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, John Henry Twachtman, and others. Featuring contributions by some of the clearest voices and leading authorities on American Impressionism, Masters of Light brings into the spotlight brilliant and rarely seen paintings while illuminating their place in the larger currents of American art history. An essay by Kevin Sharp, "The Americanization of Impressionism," examines the unintentional circumstances and deliberate efforts that transformed Impressionism from an expression of the French vanguard into an international style, and eventually, into a peculiarly American enterprise. Long recognized as the premier private holding of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American paintings in the world, the Manoogian Collection runs especially broad and deep in the area of American Impressionism, and includes many of the essential works produced by the painters who would become the "Masters of Light."

Harold Gregor's Illinois

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Based on an exhibition of the same name, this substantial book interweaves the art, the poetry, and the political history of a crucial decade in America's past - the 1860s. Written by Kevin Sharp, curator of the exhibition, the book covers Walt Whitman's years of caring for the wounded in Washington military hospitals and includes heartfelt poems he wrote about this experience.Landscapes of the Hudson River School add to the book's many colorful illustrations of paintings, historical photographs, prints, cartoons, and sculpture. A selection of Winslow Homer's paintings, as well as etchings for Harper's Weekly, depict the human side of the Civil War. Sensitive paintings and photographs show Abraham Lincoln through the years, as he takes on the ever increasing burdens of the Presidency. Among the many artists represented are genre painters Eastman Johnson, Enoch Perry Wood, William D. Washington, Thomas Waterman Wood, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble.

Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens

This adorable book shows how to make a wide variety of birds by needle felting€”sculpting wool roving into a three-dimensional figure using a special barbed needle. Each project includes a fun photo of the project with step-by-step instructions that result in 20 types of feathered friends!With Felted Feathered Friends, you'll learn to make endearing creatures such as:- A snowy owl- A peacock- A Great Blue Heron- A bluebird- A robin- A flamingo- A pair of lovebirds- And much moreThese delightful creations will put a smile on anyone's face, and with easy-to-follow directions and the author's enthusiastic and expert guidance, anyone can take part in the feathered fun!

Felted Feathered Friends: Techniques and Projects for Needle-Felted Birds

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Sharp, Laurie

Crafts & Hobbies

Quarry Books

This adorable book shows how to make a wide variety of birds by needle felting--sculpting wool roving into a three-dimensional figure using a special barbed needle. Each project includes a fun photo of the project with step-by-step instructions that result in 20 types of feathered friends!
With Felted Feathered Friends, you'll learn to make endearing creatures such as:
-A snowy owl -A peacock -A Great Blue Heron -A bluebird -A robin -A flamingo -A pair of lovebirds -And much more
These delightful creations will put a smile on anyone's face, and with easy-to-follow directions and the author's enthusiastic and expert guidance, anyone can take part in the feathered fun!

Felted Feathered Friends: Techniques and Projects for Needle-felted Birds

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