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Winslow Homer
by Winslow Homer
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7 editions published between 1959 and 1995 in English and held by 1,881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The book discusses and reproduces more than two hundred paintings, watercolors, and drawings that span Homer's career, all of which are discussed in entries by Cikovsky and Kelly. It begins with the Civil War paintings that first brought Homer's remarkable artistic mentality to public attention, in which he movingly expressed the profound implications the war held for the nation. Homer's interest in national themes is further explored in his works of the later 1860s and 1870s, which embraced a wide spectrum of American life. His shift toward more idealized and heroic imagery and his withdrawal to a solitary life at Prout's Neck, Maine, in the 1880s are discussed as turning points leading to the great achievements of his last two decades. After considering his beautiful late watercolors of the Tropics and the Adirondacks, and his monumental Prout's Neck seascapes, the book concludes with a reassessment of the tragic, almost visionary paintings of his last years. The book is also the catalogue for a major exhibition on Homer's works, opening at the National Gallery of Art on 15 October 1995 and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Andrew Wyeth
by Andrew Wyeth
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4 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 1,326 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Concise analyses of scenes and characters accompany reprints of 170 of Wyeth's drawings and paintings of American people and their surroundings
Monet in the 20th century
by Claude Monet
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9 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 1,287 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "By the beginning of the twentieth century, Claude Monet was a figure of national importance in France - the patriarch of impressionism and the country's foremost landscape painter. This richly illustrated book examines for the first time the body of work that Monet completed from 1900 until his death in 1926, a period during which he was enormously productive, increasingly wealthy, and ever more venerated."--BOOK JACKET
Van Gogh face to face : the portraits
by Vincent van Gogh
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3 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, this book brings together for the first time the great portraits from all periods of the painter's life. The story begins with the relatively unknown body of vivid, carefully executed drawings of orphans and paupers produced in The Hague when he was a young man. It continues with van Gogh's time in Paris, where the influence of Impressionism, Japanese art, and contemporaries like Gauguin and Bernard led him to produce some of his most famous images." "Each work is reproduced and set in context by leading scholars. Individually, their essays focus on particular groups of work, shedding new light on van Gogh's aims and methods. Collectively, they establish the centrality of portraiture to his oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET
Mary Cassatt : the color prints
by Nancy Mowll Mathews
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3 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 1,168 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Donated: The Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection
Ancient Egypt as represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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20 editions published between 1942 and 1968 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Anthony Caro
by William Rubin
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3 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 1,090 WorldCat member libraries worldwide catalogue raisonné
Goya and the spirit of enlightenment
by Francisco Goya
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6 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 1,080 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Picasso--the early years, 1892-1906
by Pablo Picasso
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4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,030 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Features an online exhibit of the early works of Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Notes that the exhibit is provided by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C
Cape light : color photographs
by Joel Meyerowitz
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9 editions published between 1978 and 2002 in English and held by 1,014 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Originally published in 1979, Cape Light became an instant classic and one of the most influential photography books published in the latter part of the 20th century. Common scenes, tiny figures on a beach, a porch railing against a storm-darkened sky, a blue raft against a summer cottage, all are transformed by the poignant light of the Cape and the photographer's subtle and luminous vision. This exquisitely printed book captures every nuance of color and light in that unique juncture of sky, sea, and land that is Cape Cod.--From publisher description
The artist & the book, 1860-1960, in western Europe and the United States
by Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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16 editions published between 1961 and 1982 in English and Occitan and held by 1,010 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "This exhibition is to show, primarily, what major artists of Western Europe and the United States have contributed in book form during the last hundred ... years ... In almost every case, only books illustrated with some original graphic work by the artist are shown"--Introduction
Alfred Stieglitz: photographer
by Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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15 editions published between 1965 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 996 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Represents the entire collection of his works in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For contents, see Author Catalog
Impressionist still life
by Eliza E Rathbone
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 944 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Captures the art of still life painting with reproductions of masterworks by such Impressionist artists as Van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Gaughin, Monet, and Manet
"The art that is life" : the arts & crafts movement in America, 1875-1920
by Wendy Kaplan
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12 editions published between 1987 and 1998 in English and held by 897 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "This paperback edition is a reissue of the classic book on the American Arts and Crafts movement, one of the most significant and far-reaching movements in American art. It is also one of the least understood. It transformed not only how objects looked but how people looked at objects. It changed American attitudes toward design and the home, and compelled people to think about the relationship of art to everyday life. The results can be seen in such diverse styles as Gothic, Oriental, Aesthetic, Colonial Revival, Native American, Mission, and Art Nouveau." ""The Art that is Life" was initially published in conjunction with a 1987 exhibition originated by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the first to synthesize the decorative arts and architecture of this period in America. Works include such objects as furniture, glass, silver, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, books, and architectural drawings. With eight essays by distinguished scholars and more than 300 illustrations, this book serves not only as a classic reference on American design reform but also as a celebration of the era that so unified the "artful" with the "useful.""--BOOK JACKET
How to care for works of art on paper
by Francis W Dolloff
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9 editions published between 1971 and 1985 in English and held by 882 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
David Hockney : portraits
by Marco Livingstone
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7 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 874 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most significant artists exploring and pushing the boundaries of figurative art today. Hockney has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years, when he painted Portrait of my Father (1955), and his self-portraits and depictions of family, lovers, and friends represent an intimate visual diary of the artist's life." "This illustrated book examines Hockney's portraits in all media - painting, drawing, photographs, and prints - and has been produced in close collaboration with the artist. Featured subjects include members of Hockney's family and private circle, as well as portraits of such artists and cultural figures as Lucian Freud, Francesco Clemente, R. B. Kitaj, Helmut Newton, Lawrence Weschler, and W. H. Auden. The authors reveal how Hockney's creative development and concerns about representation can be traced through his portrait work: from his battle with naturalism to his experimentation with and later rejection of photography, and from his recent camera lucida drawings to his return to painting from life in oil." "Featuring more than 250 works from the past fifty years, David Hockney Portraits illustrates not only the fascinating range of Hockney's creative practice but also the unique and cyclical nature of his artistic concerns."--BOOK JACKET
Richard Estes : the urban landscape
by Richard Estes
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4 editions published between 1978 and 1981 in English and held by 800 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The age of Rubens
by Peter C Sutton
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5 editions published in 1993 in English and Dutch and held by 787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Overzicht van de Vlaamse barokschilderkunst, waarin het werk van Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) behandeld wordt in de context van zijn atelier, zijn collega-schilders en de cultuur van zijn tijd
Chardin, 1699-1779 : a special exhibition organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Pierre Rosenberg
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7 editions published between 1979 and 1980 in English and French and held by 786 WorldCat member libraries worldwide On life and works of Chardin
Awash in color : Homer, Sargent, and the great American watercolor
by Sue Welsh Reed
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4 editions published between 1993 and 2000 in English and held by 754 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Features the most beautiful watercolors in the impressive collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The authors survey the development of the medium and discuss each painting to provide, in aggregate, a history of American watercolors that has become the standard reference on the subject more
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