Catalogue of Online Articles, Books and Essays Devoted to American Representational Art

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Abbeville Press (look in subject categories for "American Art," "Art History" and "Artist Monographs." When a book is selected go to "Sample Contents" The following books are examples:

Southwestern Indian Jewelry, By Dexter Cirillo. Photographs by Stephen Northup, Michael Monteaux. Contributor Steven Northup, Michael Monteaux. Published 1992 by Abbeville Press. Abbeville says: "Spectacular photographs of the breathtaking beautiful objects and sensitive portraits of the artists combine with an insightful, informative text to capture the spirit of this work and the vital cultures from which it springs. This ground-breaking volume opens by surveying the vividly colored necklaces, earrings, and pins made in shell and stone from prehistoric times to the present, particularly in the Santo Domingo and Zuni pueblos. The focus then shifts to the much-admired and avidly collected work in silver -- often set with turquoise and other stones -- by Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni artists. The book culminates in an exploration of striking contemporary work in which many artists have adapted traditional approaches to create original designs. A collector's guide offers invaluable advice as well as an illustrated glossary of materials, techniques, objects, and designs. A nationwide directory of sources concludes the book." (right: front cover, Southwestern Indian Jewelry. Photo courtesy Google Books) Note: the Introduction to this book may be read at the Abbeville Press web site.

 

Also:

• American Art of the Twentieth Century Tiny Folio: Treasures of the Whitney Museum of American Art (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Foreword, Introduction], Interior Images)
• American Impressionism, Second Edition (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt, Interior Images)
• American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Indroduction], Interior Images)
• Andy Warhol (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Introduction], Interior Images)
• Audubon's Birds of America Tiny Folio (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Indroduction] Interior Images)
• Bernhard Gutmann An American Impressionist (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Indroduction] Interior Images)
• California Impressionism (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [In Praise of Nature by Will South], Interior Images)
• Childe Hassam, Impressionist (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt, Interior Images, 23 page PDF excerpt)
• Coastal Images of America: Paintings by Ray Ellis (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Preface, Foreword, Introduction], Interior Images)
• Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector's Guide (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Indroduction], Interior Images)
• Covering the New Yorker: Cutting Edge Covers from a Literary Institution (Text Excerpt [Indroduction], Images)
• David Hockney (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Indroduction] Interior Images)
• Fine Art of the West (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Indroduction], Interior Images)
• Impressionist New York (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Indroduction], Interior Images)
• John Singer Sargent (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Indroduction ], Interior Images)
• Keith Haring: Future Primeval (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Prologue], Interior Images)
• Martha's Vineyard: An Affectionate Memoir (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Preface], Interior Images)
• Mary Cassatt: Paintings And Prints (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Indroduction], Interior Images)
• Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Introduction], Interior Images)
• Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers (14-page PDF containing Indroduction and Images)
• Ray Ellis in Retrospect (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt, Interior Images)
• Roy Lichtenstein (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Introduction], Interior Images)
• Sargent Abroad: Figures And Landscapes (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Introduction], Interior Images)
• Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Introduction], Interior Images)
• Thomas Kinkade: Paintings of Radiant Light (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Chapter 1: The Artist and His World], Interior Images)
• William Glackens (Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Chapter 1: Early Life and Travels], Interior Images)

About.com

• Americans in Paris, 1860-1900, A Special Exhibition Review by Anne-Marie Jacobus, including a large gallery of works in the exhibition.

absolutearts.com

• Focus on the Figure: Southern California Artists (1850-1950)
• "California Holiday: The E. Gene Crain Collection"

Alaska State Museum

• George Provost: Isle Royale

Albany (NY) Institute of History and Art

• Art, Artists and Nature: The Hudson River School

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art

• Digitalization Project including Academy Notes, 1905 - 1931; Contemporary American Sculpture Exhibition, June 17 - October 2, 1916; An Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, September 11 - October 5, 1919

Amarillo Museum of Art

• Graziella Marchicelli, Ph.D., Executive Director/Chief Curator at the Amarillo Museum of Art, wrote an essay to accompany the exhibition titled An Uncommon Dream: The Amarillo High School Collection of 19th and 20th Century Art, held in 2010 at the Amarillo Museum of Art. Dr. Marchicelli also wrote an article on the exhibition in the March-April 2010 issue of American Art Review.
• In the Interactive Learning portion of the museum's website, Photography of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) provides biographical information and images for 10 photographers of the era.

Amazon.com sells a great many of the American art books in print. Amazon has a feature that allows people on the Web to read text inside books. To use this feature, search in "books," then enter title of book. When book is selected go to "look inside" and read sample pages of the book selected, which may include color images of the front cover, front flap, table of contents, excerpt such as the introduction chapter, alphabetical index, back flap and back cover. Also, some books have a word search feature, which enables registered individuals to search inside the books and pull up individual pages containing the selected words. [Click here for more on Amazon.com's project and other digitizing initiatives.] The following books are examples for reference:

• African-American Art by Sharon F. Patton (search inside)
• African American Art and Artists, Revised and Expanded Edition by Samella Lewis (search inside)
• Alice Schille by William H. Gerdts
• American Art: A Cultural History by David Bjelajac
• American Art: History and Culture by Wayne Craven (includes excerpt)
• American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I by Art Institute of Chicago
• American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950, The by Barbara Haskell
• American Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 3: John Singer Sargent by Stephanie L. Herdrich, H. Barbara Weinberg, Marjorie Shelley
• American Impressionism, 2nd Edition by William H. Gerdts (includes excerpt)
• American Visions : The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes (includes excerpt)
• An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts by Tom Armstrong (search inside)
• Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco by Birgitta Hjalmarson (search inside)
• Arthur Wesley Dow and the American Arts and Crafts by Poesch Nancy Green Jessie
• Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965 by Caroline A. Jones (search inside)
• Bernhard Gutmann: An American Impressionist, 1869-1936 by Percy North
• California Impressionism by William H. Gerdts
• California Impressionists by Susan Landauer (includes excerpt)
• Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting by John F. Carlson (includes excerpt)
• Celebrity Caricature in America by Wendy Wick Reaves
• Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest by Nannette V. Maciejunes (includes excerpt - essay by Roald Nasgaard titled "Charles Burchfield and the Theme of North")
• Charles Burchfield Watercolors 1915-1920 by Nannette V. Maciejunes (includes excerpt)
• Charles M. Russell by Peter H. Hassrick (includes excerpt)
• Childe Hassam: American Impressionist by Ulrich W. Hiesinger (includes excerpt)
• Childe Hassam: Impressionist by Warren Adelson (includes excerpt)
• Collecting African American Art : Works on Paper and Canvas by Halima Taha (includes excerpt)
• Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Series) by Tom Patterson
• Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at the Historic New Orleans Collection by William H. Gerdts (includes excerpt)
• Eastman Johnson: Painting America by Teresa Carbone (includes excerpt - essay by Teresa Carbone titled "From Crayon the Brush: The Education of Eashman Johnson, 1840-1858")
• Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore, The by Susan G. Larkin
• Edward Hicks: Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom (Pennsylvania Paperbacks) by Alice Ford (includes excerpt)
• Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist by Gail Levin (includes excerpt)
• Edward Hopper: The Watercolors by Virginia M. Mecklenburg
• Edward Steichen by Joel Smith (includes excerpt)
• Flash of the Spirit : African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson (includes excerpt)
• Frederick Carl Frieseke : The Evolution of an American Impressionist by Nicholas Kilmer (Author), David Sellin (Author), Barbara H. Weinberg (Author), Virginia M. Mecklenburg (Author), Linda McWhorter (Editor)
• Hudson River School: American Landscape Artists (American Art), The by Bert D. Yaege
• George Inness by Nicolai Jr Cikovsky
• Impressionist New York by William H. Gerdts (includes excerpt)
• Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945 by Patricia Trenton (search inside)
• John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist by Lisa N. Peters
• John Marin Watercolors : 1929-1939 by Lawrence A. Fleischman (includes excerpt)
• Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection by W. Raymond Wood (includes excerpt: essay by Joseph C. Porter "The Eyes of Strangers: 'Fact' and Art on the Ethnographic Frontier, 1832-34")
• Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum by Amy Pastan
• Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum by William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Christopher B. Crosman, Pamela J. Belanger ,William H. Gerdts, Fronia W. Simpson
• Martin Johnson Heade by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Janet L. Comey, Karen E. Quinn, Jim Wright (includes excerpt)
• Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Artist's Studio by Warren Adelson
• Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement by Linda S. Ferber, Barbara Dayer Gallati
• Minnesota Impressionists by Rena Neumann Coen ,William H. Gerdts
• Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories by W. Jackson Rushing (search inside)
• Native North American Art (Oxford History of Art) by Janet Catherine Berlo (search inside)
• Nature Staged: The Landscape and Still Life Paintings of Levi Wells Prentice by Barbara L. Jones (includes excerpt)
• Nineteenth-Century American Art by Barbara S. Groseclose (search inside)
• Obata's Yosemite: The Art and Letters of Chiura Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927 by Chiura Obata (includes excerpt)
• Oil Painting Secrets from a Master by Linda Cateura (search inside)
• Parrish Blue by Lawrence and Judy Cutler (includes excerpt)
• Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes by Nicolai Jr. Cikovsky
• Rave Reviews : American Art and its Critics (1826 - 1925) by David B. Dearinger
• Saddlemaker to the Stars: The Leather and Silver Art of Edward H. Bohlin by James H. Nottage (includes excerpt)
• Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes by Warren Adelson
• Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution by Kenneth R. Trapp (includes excerpt)
• Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South: The Tree Gave the Dove a Leaf by Paul Arnett (search inside)
• Spirit of Native America: Beauty and Mysticism in American Indian Art, The by Anna Lee Walters (search inside)
• Thomas Eakins by Darrel Sewell (includes excerpt)
• Thomas Eakins: The Absolute Male by John Esten (includes excerpt)
• Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art by William Innes Homer (includes excerpt)
• Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West (New Directions in American Art Series) by Joni Louise Kinsey
• Thomas Struth: 1977-2002 by Douglas Eklund (includes excerpt)
• Tile Club and the Aesthetic Movement in America by Ronald G Pisano (includes excerpt)
• Traditional African American Arts and Activities by Sonya Kimble-Ellis (search inside)
• Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent by Marc Simpson ,Richard Ormond (Contributor), H. Barbara Weinberg (Contributor), John Singer Sargent (Artist) (includes excerpt)
• Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, The by Andrea D. Barnwell
• Watercolors of Edward Hopper, The by Edward Hopper, et al (includes excerpt)
• Whistler and His Circle in Venice by Eric Denker (includes excerpt)
• William Glackens by William H. Gerdts
• William Merritt Chase by Barbara Dayer Gallati
• William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes,1886-1890 by Barbara Dayer Gallati
• Words with Wings : A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art by Belinda Rochelle (includes excerpt)
• Winslow Homer by Nicolai Cikovsky Jr (includes excerpt)
• Winslow Homer: Illustrating America by Marilyn S. Kushner, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Linda S. Ferber (includes excerpt)
• Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War by Marc Simpson, Nicolai, Jr. Cikovsky, Lucretia Hoover Giese

American Art (magazine of the Smithsonian American Art Museum)

• selected back issues including articles indexed by by author, subject and year of publication. Articles in previous issues for selected years are available as .pdf files or Full Text.
• George Inness, Henry George, the Single Tax, and the Future Poet by Leo G. Mazow, American Art, Volume 18, Number 1 (Spring 2004): 58­77
• Gilbert Stuart and Manic Depression Redefining His Artistic Range by Dorinda Evans, American Art, Volume 18, Number 1 (Spring 2004): 10­31 (
• The Man in the Middle: George Bellows, War, and "Sergeant" Delaney by Charlene Engel, American Art, Volume 18, Number 1 (Spring 2004): 78­87

American Arts Quarterly

American Arts Quarterly is a publication of the Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center which says on its website: "American Arts Quarterly supports today's burgeoning cultural revival by championing creative individuals in a variety of artistic disciplines. Our authors explore the legacy and current practice of figurative painting and sculpture, the civic and symbolic ideal in architecture and memorials, formal and narrative poetry, structural melody and tonality in music, and demonstrable standards in arts education." The journal is available free of charge to artists, scholars and related professionals. For a complimentary one-year subscription, requests may be sent to: aaq@nccsc.net. The American Arts Quarterly web page contains links to essays dating back through 2004 including many concerning American representational art. Examples are:

• Contemporary Realism: The View from San Francisco by James F. Cooper, Volume 24, number 4
• Singing Shapes: Still-life Paintings in the Galleries by Gail Leggio, Volume 24, number 4
• Big Aesthetic River by Theodore Prescott, Volume 24, number 4
• Vincent Desiderio: Painting with His Head and Heart, by Stephen May, Volume 24, number 4
• The Aesthetic of Appliances: Still Lifes by John Morra by Karen L. Mulder, Volume 24, number 4
• Grand Themes Need Great Art by James F. Cooper, Volume 24, number 3 (about Graydon Parrish's commemorative mural The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: September 11, 2001)
• Is Thomas Eakins a Great Artist? by James F. Cooper, Volume 24, number 2
• In Nature's Presence: Asher B. Durand and American Landscape by Gail Leggio, Volume 24, number 2
• Lost in Our Own Backyard: How American Landscape Painting Lost Its Way by James Lancel McElhinney, Volume 22, number 4
• Endless Space, Transcendent Light: The Paintings of Randall Exon by Brian H. Peterson, Volume 22, number 2
• Fairfield Porter, Classic Modernist by Theodore Prescott, Volume 22, number 1
• Eric Fischl Under the Weight of Tradition by James Romaine, Volume 21, Number 1

The American Magazine of Art, By American Federation of Arts (via Google Books: full view)

• The Taos Society of Artists by Ernest L. Blumenschein, Original from Harvard University, The American Magazine of Art, By American Federation of Arts , published 1916, v.8 (1916-1917). Digitized Jul 2, 2007

American Craft Council Library Digital Collections

• posted online as of 2013 an Exhibition Catalog Collection with links to online catalogues containing essays.

American Folk Art Museum

• offered online as of 2013 the 2009 catalogue Approaching Abstraction by Brooke Davis Anderson, 58 pages; the 2009 catalogue Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern by Stacy C. Hollander, 26 pages; the 2008 catalogue Asa Ames: Occupation Sculpturing by Stacy C. Hollander,15 pages; the 2008 catalogue Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger by Brooke Davis Anderson, 42 pages.

American Philosophical Society

• Beyond the Grave: A Brief History of Spirit Photography

American Society of Classical Realism

• Classical Realism, A Living Artistic Tradition by Stephen Gjertson (Link found expired as of 4/21/09 audit. Source site may contain this content via a revised URL) (4/27/09 advanced search failed to locate content on source's site)

American Society of Portrait Artists

• The National Academy: A Legacy of Fine Arts, by Jennifer Hebblethwaite
• Art and Law: Derivative Works And Copyright · Painting from Another's Photograph; by Mary Ann Fergus

Amon Carter Museum

• A Century of Western Art (with foreward) (Link found expired as of 4/21/09 audit. Source site may contain this content via a revised URL) (4/27/09 advanced search failed to locate content on source's site)
• Eliot Porter Collection Guide
• Cowboy Photographer: Erwin E. Smth

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