The works of masters and those of lesser-known artists are included in this catalogue and history of American drawing from the watercolors of Jacques Le Moyne to the present-day draftsmanship of Andrew Wyeth

American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present

Arts & Photography

Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr.

History & Criticism

Harpercollins

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John Singleton Copley in America by Rebora, Carrie, Staiti, Paul, Hirshler, Erica E., Stebbins, (2013) Paperback

Troyen, Carol

Hirshler, Erica E.

Staiti, Paul

Rebora, Carrie

Individual Artists

Metropolitan Museum of Art

American Artists have been inspired by Italy since the 1760s, when Benjamin West, the first American painter to travel there, was drawn to the ancient Roman ruins and magnificent Renaissance architecture, statuary, and frescoes. This intriguing, superbly illustrated book is the first to explore the fascination Italy held for the American artist from West's time to the eve of World War I. The unique sense of the past found in Italy, where tangible evidence exists of a continual civilization from antiquity to the present, lured countless American artists to its cities, towns, and countryside. Painters from West and Copley in the eighteenth century to Cole, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, and Prendergast in the nineteenth century were inspired to create many of their finest works in Italy, as were American sculptors such as Hiram Powers and Harriet Hosmer and writers from Washington Irving to Henry James. This in-depth study includes 319 illustrations, of which 113 are reproduced in full color, many of works that have not previously been published. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Professor of Art History at Boston University, provides a broad overview of the American perception of Italy and the unique role that Italy played in the formation of American art. Further insights into this new area in the study and appreciation of American art are offered in four essays by such leading art historians as William H. Gerdts, City University of New York; Erica E. Hirshler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fred S. Licht, Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, and Boston University; and William L. Vance, Boston University. Individual commentaries on each of the paintings, sculpture, and watercolors have been written by the curatorial staff of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lure of Italy accompanies a major exhibition of the same name, organized by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., and Erica E. Hirshler that opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and travels to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Seventy full-size plates and seventy-five smaller illustrations, all reproduced in tritone plus tinted varnish, convey the subtlety and power of the extraordinary figurative work of Edward Weston (1886-1958). This is the first major publication focusing solely upon his portraiture and nudes, offering new insights into the breadth and quality of Weston's considerable achievement. The book was published on the occasion of a major traveling exhibition of Weston's portraits and nudes organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All the prints are drawn from the collection of William H. Lane, who acquired them from the heirs of Edward Weston.

Weston's Westons: Portraits and Nudes

Bulfinch Pr

In this collection of photographs, California and the West Coast of America are shown in all their seasons and scenery, from arid deserts and dramatic mountain ranges, to vineyards and fruit farms in full bloom. Many of the photographs in this book are being published for the first time.

Weston's Westons: California and the West

Quinn, Karen E.

Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Troyen, Carol

The Lane Collection: Twentieth-Century Paintings in the American Tradition

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art

Painting

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Lane Collection: 20th Century Paintings in the American Tradition

Northeastern Univ Pr

Weston's Westons: Portraits and nudes

A collection of portraits and nudes taken from The Lane Collection, which have only been previously published in the form of exhibition catalogues. Most of these photographs are in private ownership and have never truly been available for viewing by the general public.

Photography & Video

The catalogue for an exhibition of early work by Ansel Adams. Photographs by Adams; text by Karen E. Quinn and Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. 48 pages; 25 color-printed b&w plates; 10.5 x 11 inches. Bibliography, list of work in the exhibit.

Ansel Adams: The Early Years

ADAMS, Ansel

Martin Johnson Heade

Heade, Martin Johnson

Museum of Fine Arts and Yale University Press, 1999

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