Hardcover
2001 · Savannah, Georgia
by Kilmer, Nicholas et al.
Savannah, Georgia: Telfair Museum of Art / Princeton University Press, 2001. Hardcover. VG/VG. Brick colored cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, blue & color illustrated dust jacket. 218 pp. 100 color, almost 80 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2001-2002 exhibitions of artwork by American impressionist Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939). "The color-drenched gardens and sun-dappled nudes by Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) have long been loved by admirers of American Impressionism, and his paintings are treasured in museum collections across the country. This volume - with more than one hundred color and almost eighty black-and-white plates - is the first ever devoted to his work. It is being published in conjunction with the artist's first retrospective." "A biographical overview and a detailed chronology by the artist's grandson, including vintage photographs, provide much new information and correct several misconceptions about Frieseke's life and career. Three essays by leading scholars discuss the diverse stages of his work and place it in art historical context, detailing his experience as a student at Whistler's atelier in Paris and as a central member of the group of American expatriates who settled in Giverny, France, near the French master Monet. The book casts new light on Frieseke, American Impressionism, and the art world at the turn of the last century."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Frederick Carl Frieseke : a biography / Nicholas Kilmer -- Frieske's art before 1910 / H. Barbara Weinberg -- Frieseke in Le Pouldu and Giverny : the Black Gang and the Giverny Group / David Sellin -- An artist in transition : Frieseke in the 1920s and 1930s / Virginia M. Mecklenburg.
(Inventory #: 21916)