Lessons in likeness : portrait painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 : featuring works from the Filson Historical Society /

Beginning with a cultural chronology, this volume charts the course of the painters as they painted the mighty and the lowly, statesmen and business magnates, as well as country folk living far from urban centers. The chronology is followed by brief biographies of the artists, both legends and recen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pennington, Estill Curtis
Autor Corporativo: Filson Historical Society
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2011.
Temas:
Portrait painting, American > Kentucky.
Portrait painting, American > Ohio River Region.
Portrait painters > Kentucky > Biography.
Portrait painters > Ohio River Region > Biography.
Peinture de portraits américaine > Kentucky.
Portraitistes > Kentucky > Biographies.
ART > Subjects & Themes > Human Figure.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Portrait painters.
Portrait painting, American.
Kentucky.
Ohio River Region.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Cultural chronology. 1802-1835 : westward movement, eastern instruction
  • 1835-1865 : the invention of photography and the coming of war
  • 1865-1918 : exhibitions, collecting, and international trends
  • Artists' biographies
  • Appendix : an index of artists in Edna Talbott Whitley's Kentucky ante-bellum portraiture.

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