Artists of Michigan From The Nineteenth Century
Softcover
1987 · Muskegon, Mich
by Sweeney, J. Gray
Muskegon, Mich: The Muskegon Museum of Art, 1987. Softcover. G+ (Label & few marks from previous gallery owner; moderate wear to spine and edges; interior clear.). Blue & color illus. wraps. 215 pp., BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with several 1987-1988 exhibitions held to celebrate Michigan's artists at the time of the state sesquicentennial. Index lists works by 26 artists. Includes an essay, endnotes, and selected bibliography for each of these artists, as well as a general bibliography. Guest curator of this exhibition was J. Gray Sweeney. Four chapters examine: The Artist-Explorers of Michigan (Catlin, T. Moran, Bierstadt); Pioneer Artists in Early Michigan (John M. Stanley, Frederick E. Cohen, Robert Duncanson, Mortimer L. Smith, Seth Arce Whipple); The Heroic Generation (Robert Hopkin, Charles H. Eaton, Letta C. Smith, Percy Ives, Myron Barlow, Voltaire Combe, Lawrence C. Earle, George G. Newell, Mathias J. Alten); Sons of Michigan: National and International Fame (Gari Melchers, Julius Rolshoven, Leon S. Dabo, Eanger Irving Couse, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Frederick Stuart Church, William Henry Howe, Will Howe Foote and Gerrit A. Beneker). A valuable referncew with other essays as well. (Inventory #: 6844)