The methods and careers of leading American painters in the late nineteenth century
By: David W. Galenson.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11545; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11545.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Painting, American -- 19th century.; Painters -- United states.
Description: "Although American painters of the late nineteenth century were much less influential than their European counterparts, the methods and careers of the leading American artists of the period reflect the same division between visual and conceptual approaches that characterized French art.  The conceptual painters Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent matured early, and made individual landmark paintings, whereas the experimentalists Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and James McNeill Whistler developed more slowly, and made their contributions gradually in larger bodies of work.  These American artists were less innovative than their French contemporaries, but they created approaches to art no less considered than those of their more famous counterparts"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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