Bibliograph

American painters on technique, 1860-1945, Lance Mayer and Gay Myers

Type

Label

American painters on technique, 1860-1945, Lance Mayer and Gay Myers

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-288) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American painters on technique

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

818659824

Responsibility statement

Lance Mayer and Gay Myers

Sub title

1860-1945

Summary

"How paintings were made--in the most literal sense--is an important but largely unknown aspect of the story of American art. This book, like the authors' previous volume on American painting techniques from the colonial period to 1860, is based on descriptions of the materials and methods that painters used, as found in artists' notebooks, painting manuals, magazines, suppliers' catalogues, letters, diaries, books, and interviews. In interpreting this evidence, the authors have made use of their experience as conservators who have treated many important American paintings."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

William Page: an American Titian (and America's Reynolds) -- Eclectic materials and methods, 1860-1910 -- George Inness: glazing, alteration, and intuition -- James McNeill Whistler's unique techniques -- John Singer Sargent: painting with "slow haste" -- Modernism and the revival of the craft of painting, 1910-45

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