Richard Caton Woodville
Subtitle: American Painter, Artful Dodger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 23, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780691070834
Subjects: Biography: general; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; c 1800 to c 1900; Genre painters; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; United States; Artists, Architects, Photographers; American History; Art / Individual Artist; Art and Architecture; Woodville, Richard Caton; Biography; 1825-1855; Woodville, Richard Caton,
Description: "The book is the first to examine the life and art of Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855), an antebellum genre painter and shrewd observer of urban society and politics. Before Woodville died at the age of thirty, he produced a small body of work that includes such iconic paintings as Politics in an Oyster House and War News from Mexico (both 1848).

In lively prose complemented by vivid illustrations, Justin Wolff presents all the available information on the elusive Woodville and perceptively analyzes nearly every work of art the artist produced. In doing so, he shows that Woodville's paintings engaged their moment in history in surprisingly complex ways."--BOOK JACKET.