American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I

by Franklin Kelly, Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., Deborah Chotner

In no era in the history of Western art have so many artists invested so much thought and passion in the depiction of the physical conditions of the world as the nineteenth century. This volume is filled with spectacular landscape paintings by the Hudson River school artists Bierstadt (Lake Lucerne), Church (Morning in the Tropics), Cole, and Durand. Numerous marine paintings, Heade's view of nature, several portraits by Eakins, and Homer's critically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894682156
• ISBN13: 9780894682155
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.8" x 11.3"