The INDIANA DUNES REVEALED: The Art of Frank V. Dudley

A native Midwesterner’s timeless portrayals of a fragile sanctuary The Indiana Dunes Revealed offers the first comprehensive examination of a widely collected, much loved, and ecologically significant artist. Described by art historian William Gerdts as “one of the finest painters working in the Midwest in the first decades of the twentieth century,” Frank V. Dudley (1868-1957) was a native of Wisconsin who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before going on to establish a long exhibition record both there and across the country. He also dedicated over forty years of his professional life as a landscape painter to the promotion and preservation the Indiana Dunes. Today, thanks in part to Dudley’s efforts, this unique geographical region enjoys state and federal protection and provides ecologists from around the world with a living laboratory unlike anything else. The Indiana Dunes Revealed serves as the accompanying catalogue for the exhibition of Dudley’s work showing from August 15 to November 30, 2006 at the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University. Featuring 150 color and 70 black-and-white images, it celebrates Dudley’s unique artistic legacy, documents the exhibition, and demonstrates the painter’s importance to environmentalists and naturalists, especially during the many years of national debate over the designation of parts of the dunes as a national park. In some areas, Dudley’s painting may be the only record of a lost dunescape, and as the struggle between development and preservation continues, his enduring art reminds us of the need for a sustainable environment for the Great Lakes.

The Indiana Dunes Revealed: The Art of Frank V. Dudley

Arts & Photography

William H.Gerdts

Wendy Greenhouse

James R. Dabbert

J. Ronald Engel

Joan Gibb Engel

Individual Artists

University of Illinois Press

A native Midwesterner’s timeless portrayals of a fragile sanctuary The Indiana Dunes Revealed offers the first comprehensive examination of a widely collected, much loved, and ecologically significant artist. Described by art historian William Gerdts as “one of the finest painters working in the Midwest in the first decades of the twentieth century,” Frank V. Dudley (1868-1957) was a native of Wisconsin who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before going on to establish a long exhibition record both there and across the country. He also dedicated over forty years of his professional life as a landscape painter to the promotion and preservation the Indiana Dunes. Today, thanks in part to Dudley’s efforts, this unique geographical region enjoys state and federal protection and provides ecologists from around the world with a living laboratory unlike anything else. The Indiana Dunes Revealed serves as the accompanying catalogue for the exhibition of Dudley’s work showing from August 15 to November 30, 2006 at the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University. Featuring 150 color and 70 black-and-white images, it celebrates Dudley’s unique artistic legacy, documents the exhibition, and demonstrates the painter’s importance to environmentalists and naturalists, especially during the many years of national debate over the designation of parts of the dunes as a national park. In some areas, Dudley’s painting may be the only record of a lost dunescape, and as the struggle between development and preservation continues, his enduring art reminds us of the need for a sustainable environment for the Great Lakes.

Years in the making, this elegant and far-ranging volume has helped establish the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism and remains the most invaluable source of information on the subject. Called "the best book ever written on the subject" by Artforum, it includes reproductions of all the masterworks. 400 illustrations, 200 in color.

American Impressionism

History & Criticism

Abbeville Pr

The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites

BROOKLYN MUSEUM

Linda S. Ferber

Distributed to the trade by Schocken Books

The catalogue of the inaugural exhibition of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 8 April to 24 June, 1984. 52 artists are included, with illustrations in black and white and in color. The catalogue contains two sections: the historical portion, "The Golden Age of Indiana Landscape Painting," with an essay by William H. Gerdts and the contemporary portion, "Indiana's Modern Legacy," with a essay by Peter Frank.

Indiana influence: The golden age of Indiana landscape painting, Indiana's modern legacy : an inaugural exhibition of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 8 April-24 June 1984

Peter Frank

Painting

The Museum

A richly documented and beautifully illustrated work, Complementary Visions provides a comprehensive look at 200 years of Louisiana art as found in the Laura Simon Nelson Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection. Essays by Mrs. Nelson, art historian William H. Gerdts, fine arts consultant and art historian George E. Jordan, and curator Judith Bonner explore the significance of Louisiana art and the importance of the Nelson Collection.

Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection

George E. Jordan

Judith H. Bonner

Historic New Orleans Collections

This lavishly illustrated, 188-page volume includes an introduction by William H. Gerdts and essays by experts on the individual artists in this group to which many of the best-known American artists of the late nineteenth century belonged: Frank W. Benson, William Merritt Chase, Joseph DeCamp, Thomas W. Dewing, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons, Edmund C. Tarbell, John H. Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir. In addition to color images of the eleven works in the exhibition, there are thirty-six color plates and over one hundred black and white illustrations, many of rediscovered works. Providing a comprehensive survey of the Ten's twenty-one years of existence and a study of each members' participation in the group, this catalogue is of great value to American art history.

Ten American Painters

Spanierman Gallery

Otto Stark, Theodore C. Steele, J. Ottis Adams, William Forsyth and Richard B. Gruelle -- the grat Hoosier artists of Indiana. Their stories, their art.

Hoosier Group: Five American Painters

Newton, Judith Vale

Eckert Publications

Everett Raymond Kinstler: Pulps to Portraits

Martin Mahoney

Stephanie Haboush Plunkett

Norman Rockwell Museum

Book by Gerdts, William H., Stern, Jean, Jones, Harvey L., Dearinger, David

All Things Bright & Beautiful: California Impressionist Paintings from the Irvine Museum

Irvine Museum

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