american painting

Examines the life and work of the American painter known for splattering, throwing, or dripping paint onto canvases.

Presents paintings and photographs from modern artists who were part of a group assembled by Alfred Stieglitz in the 1920s and 1930s.

Explores the life and art of twentieth-century American painter Edward Hopper, and features a portfolio of seventy color illustrations.

Describes the history of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, and discusses the artists who created the nineteenth-century American landscapes, such as founder Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher Durand, Worthington Whittredge, and others.

In these pages we can see America through Rockwell's vivid and detailed artistry. Rockwell's favorite models were his family, friends , and neighbors.

The first part of this book is devoted to Maxfield Parrish, the second comprises an overview of the artist-illustrators of the Golden Age.

Provides an overview of abstract expressionism and profiles more than thirty representative pieces by a variety of artists, including Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and others.

Discusses the influence of nineteenth-century American-born artist James McNeill Whistler--who left for Europe as a young man and never returned--on American art, and presents and compares fourteen of Whistler's paintings with works by thirty-eight American painters.

Profiles the many individuals and varying paint styles associated with the Hudson River School, including Washington Allston, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and George Inness.