Background
Descended from some prominent families in old New York social circles), Wilmerding was educated at Harvard, receiving his A. B. in 1960, his masters in 1961, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1965.
(Newcomb & Gauss Co., 1964. Hardcover. Book Condition: Exc...)
Newcomb & Gauss Co., 1964. Hardcover. Book Condition: Excellent. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent. 1st Edition. The Essex Institute. Includes a Checklist of Lane Works: A. Known Lane Works - Oil Paintings, Lithographs, Watercolors, Pencil Drawings; B. Lane Works, Information Incomplete: Oil Paintings, Miscellaneous; C. Copies After Lane.
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(Richard Estes (b.1932) is one of America's leading photor...)
Richard Estes (b.1932) is one of America's leading photorealist painters. This new large-format book will cover fifty-five years of Estes's work, from 1950 to 2005, and will include paintings, watercolors, and preparatory sketches. Estes is regarded as one of the most important painters of the New York urban landscape. The crisp clarity of Estes's paintings is reminiscent of photography, yet upon closer inspection his work reveals elements and perspectives that do not exist in reality and have more to do with minimalism and realism than with traditional landscape painting. The book will also include his work of the last ten years, much of which will be published here for the first time. A detailed chronology and list of exhibitions and public collections are included.
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( A leading figure in American art scholarship, John Wilm...)
A leading figure in American art scholarship, John Wilmerding has been instrumental in the acceptance of American painting as a special area of art history, and has brought many eighteenth-and nineteenth-century American artists to public attention. American Views is a richly illustrated anthology of his work.
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(Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our i...)
Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our individual personalities. In this book, John Wilmerding explores the unconventional use of signatures in paintings. The author focuses on American artists who have not simply signed their works on a corner of the canvas but have intentionally placed their signatures within the pictorial space of the painting. A painter's name or initials might, for instance, appear as an illusion on a wall or floor, on an object within an interior, or on some form in a landscape. Wilmerding examines such signatures in works by 27 artists from the 18th to 20th centuries, including John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Jasper Johns, Andrew Wyeth and Richard Estes. After providing an overview of signatures in European art, Wilmerding looks closely at American painting. He argues that by placing a signature within a painting the artist may be making an explicit association with the setting or situation depicted. He demonstrates that such signatures or inscriptions can be viewed as fragments of autobiography or as concentrated glimpses of self-representation. Beautifully designed and handsomely illustrated, this book brings into focus the myriad and complex meanings of artists' signatures and is of interest to anyone who admires and studies American art and culture.
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(A catalogue of paintings by maritime artist Fitz Hugh Lan...)
A catalogue of paintings by maritime artist Fitz Hugh Lane. Established as one of the masters of 19th-century American painting, Lane depicts the character of maritime New England.
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( The Princeton University Art Museum’s collection of Ame...)
The Princeton University Art Museum’s collection of American drawings and watercolors is impressive in both scope and quality, providing a comprehensive overview of the nation’s artistic traditions. This lavishly illustrated book highlights seventy-seven master drawings and watercolors chosen from the museum’s extensive collection. The selections, which range from the eighteenth century to the present, are by such eminent American artists as Benjamin West, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Andrew Wyeth, Georgia O’Keeffe, Lee Bontecou, and Tom Wesselmann. A group of outstanding works by Hudson River School and Ash Can artists also distinguishes the collection. Each of the selected drawings and watercolors is reproduced in full color and is accompanied by an in-depth catalogue entry. The book also features an introduction by John Wilmerding describing Princeton’s history of collecting American art, as well as an essay by Kathleen A. Foster on the historiography of American drawings and watercolors. A useful checklist of the Museum’s entire collection of over 1,300 American drawings and watercolors, selectively illustrated in color, concludes the book. This beautiful and informative volume clearly demonstrates that the holdings of the Princeton University Art Museum represent an extraordinary resource for students, scholars, and those with a love of American art and art history.
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(Tom Wesselmann was the most unabashedly sexual of the can...)
Tom Wesselmann was the most unabashedly sexual of the canonical pop artists. Yet the blatancy of his highly stylized figures, in their cool, slick renderings, makes them subtle and opens up his images to multiple readings. This new volume with 270 illustrations covers the richness and wit of Tom Wesselmann’s career up to his death in 2004 and brings him into the limelight he deserves. Noted author John Wilmerding captures the spirit of the artist by interviewing family members and reviewing day-to-day journals. He discusses Wesselmann’s lifelong dialogue with Matisse; like Matisse, Wesselmann was a brilliant colorist and draftsman and fused together the two great traditions of color and line.
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(Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures by John Wilmerding. New ...)
Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures by John Wilmerding. New York : Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987. Early Edition. 208 pages. Oversize . Hardcover w/Jacket. B&W, color illustrations throughout. Light wear to binding, covers, pages
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(Photographic reproductions of American masterpieces--from...)
Photographic reproductions of American masterpieces--from the colonial era, through Impressionism and the Hudson River School, to the present--are each accompanied by an illuminating essay by a prominent art historian.
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(This long overdue reprint of John Wilmerding's landmark 1...)
This long overdue reprint of John Wilmerding's landmark 1971 book "Fitz Hugh Lane" has more color images, additional information about the Lane collection at the Cape Ann Historical Association, and an introduction revealing startling new research on the artist's name.
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(Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. 1973 352p. 11.50x9....)
Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. 1973 352p. 11.50x9.50x1.25 Many color and black and white pictures. Colonial Art; The first half of the 19th century; The second half of the 19th century; The forming of the Avant-Garde, 1900-1930; The 1930s and abstract expressionism; From the 1960 to the present day; Bibliography.
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(Wyeth's acclaimed masterworks are now available in paperb...)
Wyeth's acclaimed masterworks are now available in paperback. This book launched the celebrated exhibition seen by millions at museums around the world. The Abrams book is so handsomely reproduced one might be tempted to take the reproductions for the real thing.--The Wall Street Journal. 194 illustrations, including 96 in full color.
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museum curator art history educator
Descended from some prominent families in old New York social circles), Wilmerding was educated at Harvard, receiving his A. B. in 1960, his masters in 1961, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1965.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1960; A.M., Harvard University, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1965.
Assistant professor art, Dartmouth College, 1965-1968;
associate professor, Dartmouth College, 1968-1973;
Leon E. Williams professor, Dartmouth College, 1973-1977;
department chairman art, Dartmouth College, 1968-1972;
chairman humanities division, Dartmouth College, 1971-1972;
senior curator American art, National Gallery of Art, 1977-1983;
deputy director, National Gallery of Art, 1983-1988;
Sarofim professor American art, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1988;
department chairman art and archeology, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1992. Visiting lecturer history of art Yale University, 1972. Visiting professor fine arts Harvard University, 1976.
Visiting professor art U. Maryland., 1979. Visiting professor art history U. Delaware, 1982. Honorary curator painting Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
Visiting curator Metropolitan Museum, since 1988.
(This long overdue reprint of John Wilmerding's landmark 1...)
( A leading figure in American art scholarship, John Wilm...)
( A leading figure in American art scholarship, John Wilm...)
(Photographic reproductions of American masterpieces--from...)
( The Princeton University Art Museum’s collection of Ame...)
(Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our i...)
(Tom Wesselmann was the most unabashedly sexual of the can...)
(Wyeth's acclaimed masterworks are now available in paperb...)
(A catalogue of paintings by maritime artist Fitz Hugh Lan...)
(Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures by John Wilmerding. New ...)
(History and examples of American marine Painting)
(Nineteenth century collection of modern art.)
(Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. 1973 352p. 11.50x9....)
(New York 1971 1st Praeger. Sm.4to, 203pp., color and mono...)
(Newcomb & Gauss Co., 1964. Hardcover. Book Condition: Exc...)
(Richard Estes (b.1932) is one of America's leading photor...)
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Trustee College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, N.E. Harbor Library., Maine, Wendell Gilley Museum, S.W. Harbor, Maine, Wyeth Endowment for American Art, Wilmington, Delaware. Trustee emeritus Shelburne Museum, Vermont. Fellow Philadelphia Atheneum (honorary).
Member College Art Association, American Studies Association.
At the May, 2004 opening of the National Gallery of Art"s exhibit "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins", Wilmerding generously announced that his entire collection would remain at the Gallery in perpetuity, including works by such well-known artists as Martin Johnson Heade, Fitz Henry Lane, John F. Peto, Joseph Decker, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Frederic Edwin Church, George Caleb Bingham, and John F. Kensett, and featuring certain of his favorite works by artists who visited and painted Maine"s Mount Desert Island in Acadia National Park, where he has summered for many years.