Ferdinand Richardt
Subtitle: Drawings of America, 1855-1859
By: Paul D. Schweizer and Melinda Young Stuart, curators ; photography by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler.
Contributors: Phillips, Michele; Taylor, John Bigelow, photographer.; Dubler, Dianne, photographer.
Publisher: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Utica, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Richardt, Ferdinand, -- 1819-1895 -- Travel -- North America -- Exhibitions; Landscape in art -- Exhibitions; North America -- In art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.; In art; American cultural history
First sentence: When thirty-six -year-old Ferdinand Richardt set foot in New York in July 1855, he was already a successful professional artist in his native Denmark.
Description: This catalog illustrates the fifty-four drawings in the exhibition and provides new published information about this little-known 19th century artist who worked in a style and at a period comparable to the American Hudson River School.  The views of American life Richardt captured in the United States in the 1850s are unique and have the quality of photography in their detail. Many public collections include the artist's oil-on-canvas paintings, but few hold his drawings which represent his eye-witness views of the scene.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, Feb. 11-Apr. 15, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Director's Preface, Paul D. Schweizer
pagenum: 6; title: Ferdinand Richardt's American Sojourn, Melinda Young Stuart
pagenum: 9; title: Ferdinand Richardt: Draftsman, Paul D. Schweizer
pagenum: 17; title: Fire and Flood: The Conservation of Richardt's Drawings, Michele Phillips
pagenum: 25; title: Catalog of the Exhibition
pagenum: 29; title: Acknowledgments, Paul D. Schweizer and Melinda Young Stuart
pagenum: 40