William Morris Hunt, 1824-1879
By: Sally Webster.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879.; Painters -- United States -- Biography.
Description: William Morris Hunt is the first modern study of the influential Boston painter who played a leading role during a transitional period of American art in the late nineteenth century. His greatest contributions to American art, however, were his two mural paintings, The Flight of Night and The Discoverer, completed for the Albany, New York, Assembly Chamber in 1878.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index.
"The Cambridge monographs on American artists series"--p. xv.