American still-life painting / [by] William H. Gerdts and Russell Burke

Gerdts, William H. Burke, Russell E

1971, 1st edition. New York : Praeger. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #400901

Physical description; 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Notes; Illus. incl. col. plates. Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259). Contents; Antecedents and beginnings -- The Peale dynasty -- Other early nineteenth-century still life -- Nonprofessional still life -- The flood tide at mid-century -- Nineteenth-century flower painters -- Still life by landscape painters and other specialists -- The influence of Ruskin and the pre-Raphaelites on American still life -- Fish and game still life -- Trompe l'oeil : William Michael Harnett and his followers -- "Hard edge" fruit and vegetable painters -- Some regional still-life schools : Fall River, Providence, Springfield -- Still life by poets and visionaries of the late nineteenth century -- The influence of Munich and Paris -- Still life by the American impressionists -- Twentieth-century still life. Subjects; Still-life painting, American. Still-life painting. United States. American still-life paintings, to 1970.

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