Mayer, Lance, American painters on technique , c2011
- Title(s):
- American painters on technique : the colonial period to 1860 / Lance Mayer and Gay Myers.
- Published/Created:
- Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2011.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 249 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryND1471 .M39 2011 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10153074
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Painting -- Technique -- History.Painting, American.
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- Provincial painters and European connections
- Banjamin West and his influence
- Americans in the old world: Copley, the Peales, and Trumbull
- Gilbert Stuart: The first American old master
- Washington Allston:" the painter poet"
- Sully, the old masters, and "tone"
- The "experimentalists"
- Thoms Sully: compiler and experimenter
- John Neagle: the methodical experimenter
- Rembrandt Peale: experimenter and entrepeneur
- Store-bought supplies and new materials in the 1830's,1840's, and 1850's
- Thomas Cole: "the best landscape painter in the world"
- William Sydney Mount: "stamped with an entirely american character".