American Art Narrative Painting - A BRIEF OUTLINE OF RECOMMENDATIONS
to the LIST OF ARTISTS
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KEY STUDIES
GENERAL BEFORE 1900
AMERICAN MASTERPIECES, National Gallery of Art
THE CAPITAL IMAGE , Painting in Washington 1800-1915.
MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN PAINTING 1760-1900 Boston, Washington paris
AMERICAN PAINTINGS 1800-1865, Boston 1956
NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA. PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MET NY
GENERAL AFTER 1900
FRAMES OF REFERENCE, Looking at American Art 1900-1950 works from the Whitney Museum
MILESTONES OF AMERICAN PAINTING IN OUR CENTURY , Boston 1949, texts and images
SYMBOLIC REALISM IN AMERICAN PAINTING Institute of Contemporary Art, 1950, complete catalogue ( Koerner, French, Cadmus, Castellanos , Wyeth etc)
MODERN ARTISTS IN AMERICA NO 1 The Arensberg Collection
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTING The University of Illinois 1950, texts and plates
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTING The University of Illinois 1950, FORTUNE artists biographies
ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART 65 YEARS
The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters 1915 , Anderson
POP ART, John Rublowsky, a selection of photographs
THE MODERN SPIRIT, American Painting 1908-1935 (biblio)
SURREALISM IN AMERICA, Wechsler, Rutgers 1977 biblio,
SPECIFICS
TWO CENTURIES OF BLACK AMERICAN ART. LACM 1976
THE GROTESQUE IN AMERICAN ART, Robert Doty, Whitney
SOUNDING THE DEPTHS , 150 YEARS OF AMERICAN SEASCAPE
A WINDOW INTO COLLECTING, The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton.
MACHINE ART. MOMA 1934
THE RAILROAD IN AMERICAN ART, the Smithsonian
AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS WITH CEZANNE
AMERICAN FOLK PAINTING (EBERT)
FOLK ART'S MANY FACES, NEW YORK State Historical Association.
AMERICAN FOLK ART (ABBEY ROCKEFELLER COLL)
ILLINOIS LANDSCAPE (1830-1975)
AMERICAN FOLK ART (BILL HOLLAND COLLECTION)
THE ART OF THE PEOPLE, (US and UK) James Ayres
BY GOOD HANDS, NEW HAMPSHIRE FOLK ART
AMERICAN FOLK ART (KETCHUM)
A WINDOW INTO COLLECTING, The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton. Galleries - the artists own testimony
IN THE EYE OF THE STORM, the art of conscience, the Schiller Collection
AMERICAN VANGUARDS, Graham, Davis, Gorky and their Circle, Andover, Yale.
SHAKER HOME, BIALL
PRINTMAKING
A SPECTRUM OF INNOVATION, American Printmaking 1890-1960
AMERICAN PRINTS 1879-1979, British Museum 1980
AMERICANS OUTSIDE AMERICA
AMERICANS IN PARIS 1860-1900
ESPANA, American Artists and Spain (Sargent)
IMPRESSIONISM ABROAD, Boston and French Painting
AMERICAN IN VENICE 1879-1913 COE KERR, NEW YORK
ADVENTURE AND INSPIRATION American artists in other lands, Hirschel and Adler 1988
AUCTION SALES
SOTHEBY'S 1992 INNESS, SARGENT, PETERSON, DEMUTH WYETH DAVIS
SOTHEBY'S 1994 SHINN, SHEELER, DOHANOS NICHOLS
AMERICANA, Sotheby's 1996
AMERICANA, Sotheby's 1995 (Deyerle Collection)
AMERICAN WATERCOLOURS , THE TRANSCO SALE 1992 Sotheby's Sargent, Shahn, Benton, Pennell, Hopper etc
AMERICAN PAINTINGS DRAWINGS SCULPTURE Sotheby's 1997 Walter Gay, Demuth, Rockwell Parrish etc
AMERICAN PAINTINGS DRAWINGS SCULPTURE Sotheby's 1997 Benton Marsh Parrish David etc
AMERICAN PAINTINGS DRAWINGS SCULPTURE Sotheby's 1995 Hopper, Peto, Shahn, Rockwell (Goodrich/Hackett coll.)
AMERICAN PAINTINGS DRAWINGS SCULPTURE Sotheby's 1992 Marsh, Pene Du Bois, Demuth Crawford schamberg
AMERICAN PAINTINGS DRAWINGS SCULPTURE Sotheby's 1994 Roseland, Prendergast, Shahn, Dohanos Kaye etc
AMERICAN PAINTINGS DRAWINGS SCULPTURE Sotheby's 1995 Sargent. Levine, Marsh, Wood, Rockwell, Dohanos.
AMERICAN PAINTINGS DRAWINGS SCULPTURE Sotheby's 1992 Sargent. Kriss, Kent
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VTS HEADINGS
Robert Riggs
American
Still Life
FORTUNE illustrators
Associated
American Artists, single image c1938
John
Groth sketchbooks
Great
Moments of your Life misc. illustrators
May 1951 (single)
PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN FOLK ART, SALE, Machmer Collection
BILL HOLLAND COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FOLK ART
MORGAN RUSSELL. THE KINETIC ART MACHINE, MONTCLAIR, KUSHNER 1990
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That American Art is synonymous in the public mind with abstraction
and painterliness for its own sake; that Abstract Expressionism cannot
be understood without recourse to subject matter.
That in reacting against European modes of imagemaking,
there came into being an eccentric figure drawing style with strong
narrative possibilities.
That the career of Philip Gaston exactly mirrors the promise
and failures of American painting as it tried to define those narrative
possibilities.
1. Some surprising Artists.
1.1 Paul Cadmus ; b.1904,
1.2 George Tooker; b.1920, studied under Marsh, Cadmus and Kenneth
Hayes Miller.
1.3 Jared French ; b. 1905.
1.4 Peter Blume , b.1906.
1.5 Marvin Cone 1891-1965;
1.6 Clarence Holbrook Carter , b.1904.
1.7 Robert Riggs 1897- 1970;
1.8 Hananiah Harari, b.1905; being figurative and non-figurative at
the same time.
1.9 Alexander Hogue , b.1898;
Regionalist Masters ;
Grant Wood,
Thomas Hart Benton,
John Steuart Curry,
Paul Sample.
Figure Painters ;
Reginald Marsh,
Ben Shahn,
Jacob Lawrence,
Philip Evergood,
Andrew Wyeth.
Trompe L'Oeil
Peto and Harnett
Other narrative painters you should know about ;
Edward
Hopper,
Charles Sheeler,
Charles Demuth.
see also artist illustrators working for the ads
Themes of the Lecture ;
The
impact of the city and its technology.
The tension with the agricultural.
The depiction of the body despite the Ecole de Paris and the influence
of Europe.
The sensuality of the American figurative and the influence of gay
artists.
The satirical intent of American Art versus the dramatic narrative
of the Mexican muralists (Rivera, Siquieros).
BOOKLIST
Belisario
Contreras, Tradition and Innovation in New Deal
Art , Assoc.Univ.Press, London 1983.
Carey
and Griffiths, ex.catal., American Prints 1879-1979
,British Museum, London, 1980.
Milton
Brown (ed), ex.cat., The Modern Spirit, American
Painting 1908-1935, ACGB London 1977.
Apollo
Magazine, March 1981, entire issue on "American
Realists" .
M.S.Young, American
Realists, Homer to Hopper,
Galahad, NY, 1977.
Heller
and Williams, Painters of the American Scene ,Galahad,
NY, 1982.
J.Wechsler, Surrealism
and American Art, Rutgers
Univ.Art Gallery, 1977.
ex.cat.,
American Art 1934-1956, selections from the Whitney
Museum, Montgomery, Ala., 1978.
Karen
Tsujimoto, Images of America, Precisionist Painting
and Modern Photography , Univ.of Washington Press, London,
1982.
Hills
and Tarbell, The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney
Museum of American Art , Whitney, NY, 1980.
Buckley
and Agee, The Ebsworth Collection; American Modernism
1911 - 1947 St.Louis Art Museum, 1988.
Nygren and Marzio, American Figurative Art from the Corcoran
Gallery .Smithsonian, Wash.,1981.
Matthew
Baigell, The American Scene, American Painting of
the 1930's, Praeger, NY, 1974.
Lincoln
Kerstein, Paul Cadmus , Imago, NY 1984.
Thomas
H.Garver, George Tooker, Rizzoli, NY, 1985.
F.A.Trapp, Peter
Blume ,Rizzoli, NY 1987.
J.Czestochowski, Marvin
Cone ,Dutton, NY, 1985.
Trapp,
Dreisshpoon, Pau-Llosa, Clarence Holbrook Carter,
Rizzoli, NY, 1989.
Ben
Bassham, The Lithographs of Robert Riggs ,
Art Alliance, Phil., 1986.
Lea
DeLong, Nature's Forms/Nature's Forces, The Art of Alexander
Hogue ,Univ.of Oklahoma Press, 1984/5.
McGrath
and Glick, Paul Sample, Painter of the American
Scene , ex.cat., Dartmouth College, 1988.
Lloyd
Goodrich, Edward Hopper, Abrams, NY, 1971.
Gail
Levin, Edward Hopper as Illustrator, Whitney,
NY, 1979.
The Prints of Reginald Marsh ,Potter, NY. 1976.
Barbara
Haskell ,Charles Demuth ,Whitney/Abrams,
NY. 1988.
Wanda
Corn, Grant Wood, The Regionalist Vision ,Yale
Univ.Press, London, 1984.
Lincoln
Rothschild, To Keep Art Alive, Kenneth Hayes Parker
, Art Alliance Press, Phil., 1974.
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