Pennsylvania Art History

with an emphasis on representational art

Articles Sampler

(above: L. Birge Harrison (1854-1929), November, 1881, oil on canvas (?), 51.9 x 97.6 in. Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Jim Alterman: "Pennsylvania Impressionists and Modernists" American Art Review September-October 2001 (Volume XIII, Number 5)

Alice A. Carter: "The Red Rose Girls" American Art Review November-December 2003 (Volume XV, Number 6)

Doreen Bolger, "The Education of the American Artist", In this Academy, 1976, The Pennsylvania Academy: pp. 51-74

Betsy Fahlman: "Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting" American Art Review July-August 2006 (Volume XVIII, Number 4)

Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Frank Goodyear, "A History of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1906", pp. 12-48

Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Frank Goodyear, "American Landscape Painting", pp. 122-137

Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Frank Goodyear, "The Eight", pp, 188-228

Erika Jaeger-Smith: "The Bucks County . Framemaking Tradition" American Art Review January-February 2001 (Volume XIII, Number 1)

Erika Jaeger-Smith: "Phillips' Mill: Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of Art" American Art Review May-June 2005 (Volume XVII, Number 3)

Ilene D. Lieberman: "Race and Remembrance: Philadelphia's All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors and the Politics of Place" American Art Journal ( vol. 29, nos. 1 and 2; 1998)

Joan M. Marter: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Joan Marter, "Contemporary American Art at the Academy", pp. 229-258

(above: Cecilia Beaux, Twilight Confidences, 1888, oil on canvas, 23.5 x 27.9 inches, Georgia Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

McCombs, Douglas. 2002. " Western Pennsylvania Folk: Art from the People." Western Pennsylvania History 85 (Winter 2002-2003): 10-20.

Milo M. Naeve: "An Aristocratic Windsor in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia"  American Art Journal ( vol. 11, no. 3; 1979)

Judith Hansen O'Toole: American Art Review "Valley of Work: Scenes of Industry in Western Pennsylvania" February-March 96

Judith Hansen O'Toole: American Art Review " George Luks: The Watercolors Rediscovered" June-July 95

Judith Hansen O'Toole & Carla S. Herling: "Treasures from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art" American Art Review January-February 1999 (Volume XI, Number 1)

Judith Hansen O'Toole with Kevin O'Toole: "Still-Life Painting in Southwestern Pennsylvania" American Art Review July-August 2001 (Volume XIII, Number 4)

Brian H. Peterson: "Impressionism Comes to Bucks County" American Art Review September-October 2002 (Volume XIV, Number 5)

Michael William Schantz: American Art Review "Woodmere Art Museum, The Artists' Museum," April-May 94

Michael William Schantz: "The Pennsylvania Impressionist Legacy" American Art Review September-October 2005 (Volume XVII, Number 5)

(above: Walter Elmer Schofield, Summer Afternoon, oil on canvas, 36 x 40 inches, Christie's.Frosty Morning by Walter Elmer Schofield, 30 x 26 inches (76.2 x 66 cm), oil on canvas, 1913 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

J. Daniel Selig: "A Visit to the Reading Museum, Part I" American Art Review January-February 1974 (Volume 1, Number 2)

Darrel L. Sewell: "Three Centuries of Philadelphia Artists" American Art Review May-June 1976 (Volume III, Number 3)

Mark Thistlethwaite: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Mark Thistlethwaite, "The Artist As Interpreter of American History", pp. 99-120

Lori Verderame: "Bucks County Artists" American Art Review November-December 2000 (Volume XII, Number 6)

David Wilkins: "The American Painting Collection at the Sarah Scaife Gallery, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh" American Art Review March-April 1975 (Volume II, Number 2)

(above: Thomas Eakins, Study for Cowboys in the Badlands, c. 1887-88, oil on canvas, 26.25 x 30.25 inches, Denver Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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