Background
Harvey, Eleanor Jones was born on September 20, 1960 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Charles Roy Junior and Margaret McChesney (Jeffries) Jones.
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Sanford Robinson Gifford was a leading Hudson River School artist. His love of nature first surfaced as a youth growing up in Hudson, New York, and, together with his admiration for the works of Thomas Cole, inspired him to become a landscape painter. Influenced as well by J.M.W. Turner and by trips to Europe in the 1850s, Gifford's art was termed "air painting", for he made the ambient light of each scene - colour-saturated and atmospherically enriched - the key to its expression. Gifford was a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the time of his death, he was so esteemed by the New York art world that the Museum mounted an exhibition of his work - its first accorded an American artist - and published a Memorial Catalogue that for nearly a century remained the principal source on the artist. This volume features essays examining Gifford's position in the Hudson River School, his Catskill and Adirondack subjects, his patrons, and his adventures as a traveller both at home and abroad. More than 70 of the artist's best-known sketches and paintings are discussed and reproduced in colour.
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At the heart of this beautiful volume is a remarkable collection of paintings amassed in the late 1980s by Texans Hugh and Marie Halff. The works range from Ernest Lawson’s celebration of modern urbanism in his Flatiron Building (1906-07), to the exoticism of Harry Siddons Mowbray’s Two Women (1893-96), and the harmonious plein-air geometry of Theodore Robinson’s The Anchorage,Cos Cob(1894). The Halff’s collection spans the period in American art known as The Gilded Age’, when Ruskin’s credo of truth to nature’ gave way to Whistler’s rallying cry of art for art’s sake’.
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Harvey, Eleanor Jones was born on September 20, 1960 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Charles Roy Junior and Margaret McChesney (Jeffries) Jones.
Bachelor with distinction summa cum laude, University of Virginia, 1983; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1985; Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1987; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1998.
Curatorial assistant, National Museum American Art, Washington, 1985-1989; assistant curator American paintings, Museum Fine Arts, Boston, 1989-1991; associate curator American art, Dallas Museum Art, 1992-1998; consultant curator American art, Dallas Museum Art, since 1996; consultant curator, National Museum Wildlife Art, since 1996. Instructor art Yale University, 1985, 86, 87, member st. hall lecture series committee, history of art department, 1984-1987, graduate student advising committee, 1985-1987, graduate student representative, 1985-1986, graduate and professional student senate commission on library policy, 1985-1988, alumni fundraising agent for history of art department, since 1991. Lecturer in field.
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(Sanford Robinson Gifford was a leading Hudson River Schoo...)
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Board directors Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, since 1998. Member annual giving advisory council University Virginia. Member University Virginia Associates of Library., since 1998.
Member American Association Museum, College Art Association, Assn Art Museum Curators, Association History American Art.
Married Stephen Jay Harvey, October 10, 1992.