Book by Weisberg, Gabriel P., Chu, Petra Ten-Doesschate

Redefining Genre: French and American Painting 1850-1900

Arts & Photography

Weisberg, Gabriel P.

Chu, Petra Ten-Doesschate

Trust for Museum Exhibitions

Dixon Gallery and Gardens

History & Criticism

Trust for Museum Exhibition

Gold, Jade, Forests: Costa Rica / Oro, Jade, Bosques: Costa Rica (English and Spanish Edition)

Calvo Mora, Marlin

Vargas, Leidy Bonilla

Perez, Julio Sanchez

Mora, Marlin Calvo

Bonilla Vargas, Leidy

Sanchez Perez, Julio

Museo Nacional De Costa Rica

Western art of America's frontier years, from about 1825 to 1925, has traditionally been perceived as the art most representative of the country's cultural and historical essence. European American explorers were accompanied or soon followed by adventuresome artists whose drawings and paintings provided the first glimpses that eastern audiences had of this vast region and captured both its romantic allure and its commercial possibilities. The artists-Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Jacob Miller, Thomas Moran, Fanny R. Palmer, Frederick Remington, Charles M. Russell, and John Mix Stanley, amoong others-presented a fabulous vision of the West that was at once Edenic and bountiful as well as dangerous and forbidding.
 Since the 1980s, much of western history and art has been reevaluated. Its rosy ambience has been tinged with allegations of sexism, ethnocentrism, imperialism, and economic exploitation. The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality explores some of these new insights and perspectives and seeks to reconcile these with entrenched myth.

The American West: Out of Myth, into Reality

Hassrick, Peter H.

Mississippi Museum of Art

Distributed by the U. of Washington Press, this volume was produced to accompany an exhibition, although it is not indicated where or when the exhibition was held (Block is a collector in Washington DC). A short introduction by Spink discusses Whistler's lithographs. The catalog presents the 87 prints in Block's collection grouped by theme, each section beginning with a short introduction. There is a bibliography, but no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

James McNeill Whistler: Lithographs from the Collection of Steven Block

WHISTLER, James McNeill

Block, Steven

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Beginning about 1825, frontier artists of the American West shaped the national identity through their collective images of the region. Following in their footsteps were Frederic Remington (1861-1909) and Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), who brought western art to its apotheosis, becoming, in the historian Robert Taft's phrase, "the most celebrated artists of the West." 
As young men, Remington and Russell struck out for the West, seeking adventure and self-identity. Remington stayed for only one year, Russell for the rest of his life. But both eventually became artists, and both took as their subject the disappearing West and its people. Different in temperament and style, they became the focal point of a manufactured rivalry that dominated the American art scene at the turn of the century and in essence pitted East against West. Camps of followers developed, and duels were waged on their behalf in the press, although neither Remington nor Russell directly engaged in the rivalry. 
This volume recounts the story of their shared limelight, its interplay and tensions. It also explores who Remington and Russell were, how their art interacted, and why, despite their fundamental differences, they are so inextricably joined in the public mind. Their depictions of the West and its people--Indians, cowboys, cavalrymen, and mountainmen--continue to define the West in the American imagination.

Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art

The sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), called the "American Michelangelo," has often been compared to the magnificent works of the Renaissance. As an advocate of new ideas and a new approach to sculpture, Saint-Gaudens played a preeminent role in developing America's cultural life and revitalizing the art of sculpture in the modern age. The son of immigrants, Saint-Gaudens studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France and spent eight years in Europe, where he found a freer and bolder form of artistic expression. On his return to the United States in 1875, he used his European training to create a new American style incorporating simplicity of subject, realism of form, and strength of emotion. In addition to his monuments, his works also included interior decoration for some of the great houses of the Gilded Age, portrait reliefs, and medals and U.S. coinage.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age

North Carolina Museum Of Art

Duffy, Henry J.

Dryfhout, John H.

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site (Cornish, N. H.)

Parrish Art Museum

Individual Artists

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