Important information inside: The art of John F. Peto and the idea of still-life painting in Nineteenth-Century America

Examines the paintings of John F. Peto in the context of American art and culture and discusses his use of color, light, and dramatic contrasts

Important Information Inside: The Art of John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century America

Wilmerding, John.

Harper&Row

American Art (Hist of Art)

Physical description: xxiv, 322p, leaf of plate, [192]p of plates : ill (incl 1 col), 1map, ports ; 27 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Art - United States - History.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Puffin

American Art: American Vision : Paintings from a Century of Collecting

Sokol, David M.

Schall, Ellen M.

Maier Museum of Art

The genius of American painting;

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our individual personalities. In this intriguing book, John Wilmerding—an eminent historian of American art—explores the unconventional use of signatures in paintings. The author focuses on American artists who have not simply signed their works on a corner of the canvas but have intentionally placed their signatures within thepictorial space of the painting. A painter’s name or initials might, for instance, appear as an illusion on a wall or floor, on an object within an interior, or on some form in a landscape. Wilmerding examines such signatures in works by twenty-seven artists from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, including John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Jasper Johns, Andrew Wyeth, and Richard Estes. After providing an overview of signatures in European art, Wilmerding looks closely at American painting. He argues that by placing a signature within a painting the artist may be making an explicit association with the setting or situation depicted. He demonstrates that such signatures or inscriptions can be viewed as fragments of autobiography or as concentrated glimpses of self-representation. Beautifully designed and handsomely illustrated, this book brings into focus the myriad and complex meanings of artists’ signatures and is of interest to anyone who admires and studies American art and culture.

Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings

Yale University Press

The Princeton University Art Museum’s collection of American drawings and watercolors is impressive in both scope and quality, providing a comprehensive overview of the nation’s artistic traditions. This lavishly illustrated book highlights seventy-seven master drawings and watercolors chosen from the museum’s extensive collection. The selections, which range from the eighteenth century to the present, are by such eminent American artists as Benjamin West, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Andrew Wyeth, Georgia O’Keeffe, Lee Bontecou, and Tom Wesselmann. A group of outstanding works by Hudson River School and Ash Can artists also distinguishes the collection.
Each of the selected drawings and watercolors is reproduced in full color and is accompanied by an in-depth catalogue entry. The book also features an introduction by John Wilmerding describing Princeton’s history of collecting American art, as well as an essay by Kathleen A. Foster on the historiography of American drawings and watercolors. A useful checklist of the Museum’s entire collection of over 1,300 American drawings and watercolors, selectively illustrated in color, concludes the book.
This beautiful and informative volume clearly demonstrates that the holdings of the Princeton University Art Museum represent an extraordinary resource for students, scholars, and those with a love of American art and art history.

American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: Volume 1: Drawings and Watercolors

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Princeton University Art Museum

Photographic reproductions of American masterpieces--from the colonial era, through Impressionism and the Hudson River School, to the present--are each accompanied by an illuminating essay by a prominent art historian.

American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art

Gramercy

American Art: 2 (Hist of Art)

Viking Adult

A leading figure in American art scholarship, John Wilmerding has been instrumental in the acceptance of American painting as a special area of art history, and has brought many eighteenth-and nineteenth-century American artists to public attention. American Views is a richly illustrated anthology of his work.

American Views: Essays on American Art

Princeton University Press

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