Gilbert Munger
Subtitle: Quest for Distinction
Contributors: Alan Wallach (Foreword)
Publisher: Afton Historical Society Press
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781890434571
Subjects: Individual artists; Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes; Painting & paintings; c 1800 to c 1900; Landscape in art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; USA; Munger, Gilbert,; Landscape; Techniques - Oil Painting; Techniques - Painting - Specific Subjects; 1836-1903
Description: Explores the career of artist-explorer Gilbert Munger who painted landscapes of the American West that took him to the top of the New York and San Francisco markets in the 1870s. Describes how his move abroad in 1876 brought him European acclaim but relegated him to obscurity in the United States by his return in 1893.