A prominent figure in the Boston School and a member of the Ten American painters, Frank W. Benson executed a spectacular group of Impressionist works between 1897 and 1920 during summers spent on North Haven Island, Maine. Depicting his wife and daughters at leisure in the outdoors, Benson created vivid sunlit images expressive of the idyllic pleasures of endless August afternoons on a breezy, refreshing coastal landscape. This 74-page catalogue includes essays by Sheila Dugan, William H. Gerdts, and John Wilmerding. In addition to color illustrations of the twelve works in the show, there are ten color and twenty-two black and white reproductions.

Frank W. Benson the Impressionist Years

Biographies & Memoirs

Wilmerding, John.

Arts & Literature

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This catalogue includes a short biography of the important American Impressionist Childe Hassam and eight sumptuous fold out color plates.

Childe Hassam, 1859-1935

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One of the most original artists among the American Impressionists and a member of the Ten American Painters, John Twachtman (1853-1902) created his best known work on his property in Greenwich, Connecticut, from 1889 to 1902. This exhibition catalogue focuses on a select group of Twachtman's Greenwich works: his vibrant and sensuous images in oil and pastel of flowers in the wild and in the artist's own garden as well as rare figurative images, in which Twachtman depicted his family in casual outdoor settings. Within this 104-page publication are essays by Richard J. Boyle, William H. Gerdts, John Douglass Hale, and Lisa N. Peters. Each of the twenty works in the show are illustrated in color and there are an additional eighteen color and twenty-four black and white illustrations.

In the Sunlight: The Floral and Figurative Art of John Henry Twachtman

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Peters, Lisa N.

Ira Spanierman Gallery

Gardening & Landscape Design

Aaron Gorson's dramatic nocturnal and smoke-filled views of the gigantic steel mills of Pittsburgh stand as one of the most significant artistic records of early twentieth-century industry in America. Including ten individual color plates and twenty pages of text by scholar Rina Youngner, this catalogue establishes Gorson's position in American art history and his role as an observer of the poetic and grand spectacle of American technology in its developing years.

The Power and the Glory: Pittsburgh Industrial Landscapes by Aaron Harry Gorson (1872-1933)

Rina Youngner

American Works on Paper III, Spanierman/Drawings

Drawings

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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

Arts & Photography

William H.Gerdts

Individual Artists

The Cape Ann region of Massachusetts has been a gathering place for artists since the mid-nineteenth century. Drawn to its dynamic contrasts of land and sea, its brilliant, glowing light, and its summer art community, artists found inspiration in the area, which they expressed in works rendered in a wide variety of stylistic approaches. This 16-page catalogue includes twenty-six color plates and three essays (by Karen Quinn and Lisa N. Peters) chronicling the different phases of artist activity on the cape. The artists whose works are discussed and illustrated include Fitz Hugh Lane, Winslow Homer, William Morris Hunt, Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, Frank Duveneck, Edward Henry Potthast, Edward Hopper, John Sloan, Maurice Prendergast, Marsden Hartley, and Stuart Davis.

Painters of Cape Ann: One Hundred Years in Gloucester and Rockport

Quinn, Karen

Myron Lechay

Kachur, Lewis

Wilfrid de Glehn (1870-1951), one of England's leading Impressionists, was a close friend of the important American expatriate John Singer Sargent. De Glehn held an important role in Anglo-American art circles, fraternizing with a group of prominent cultural figures that included painters Frank D. Millet and J. Alden Weir, architects Stanford White and Charles McKim, the collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, and the novelist Edith Wharton. His ties to the United States were further strengthened in 1904 when he married Jane Erin Emmet, a member of the well known Emmet family of painters. De Glehn was one of Sargent's closest friends; the two artists painted together in England, Italy, Corfu, and Spain. The 104-page catalogue, which includes 47 full-page color illustrations, features an essay and entries by Laura Wortley, de Glehn's biographer and a noted scholar of British Impressionism.

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn: John Singer Sargent's Painting Companion

Wortley, Laura

History & Criticism

One hundred twenty-five years of American watercolor painting

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