The Artist's Mount Desert:  American Painters on the Maine Coast
The rugged and romantic topography of this island has inspired a veritable "who's who" list of 19th- and 20th-century American landscapists, including Hudson River School realist Thomas Cole, luminist Fitz Hugh Lane, and modernist John Marin. Readers will be fascinated by the translation of simple pencil sketches into oil paintings exhibiting great breadth of style and emotion. Professor and curator Wilmerding is a specialist in the area of American landscape painting, as proven by his scholarly text. The volume features nearly 200 illustrations, 59 in color, and annotated footnotes in lieu of bibliography. Of obvious interest to collections related to Maine and American art.Kathleen Eagen Johnson, Historic Hudson Valley, Tarrytown, N.Y.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.