The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880
Softbound
1998 · New York
by Harvey, Eleanor Jones
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. Softbound. VG, slight wear to extremities.. Color wraps. 300 pp. Profuse color and bw plates. Annotated catalogue of 91 works-19th century oil sketches-with five chapters: "The Artist in the Field", "The Alchemy of the Studio", "The Oil Sketch on Display", "Collecting the Painted Sketch", and "The Oil Sketch as Art". This is the first volume to focus on the sketches of major American artists of that period. Beautiful illustrations by artists such as Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Daniel Huntingdon, John Frederick Kensett, Jaspar Francis Cropsey, Jervis McEntee, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Albert Bierstadt, and Worthington Whittredge. A stunning look at plein air painting in 19th-century American Art. Published to accompany the exhbition held in Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, June 21 to Sept. 20, 1998, two other locations. (Inventory #: 18405)