Willard Metcalf, Yankee Impressionist, 1st Edition

American paintings from the Manoogian Collection by the National Gallery of Art. Washington: Natl. Gallery of Art, 1989. First edition. 203 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Publish...

Massachusetts Beautiful by Wallace Nutting. Old America, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. 1935. First Edition Thus Signed hardcover no dust jacket. Part of His "States Beautiful" series. With many black and white photographs and illustrations of localities throughout the state of Massachusetts...

On Brewster's Creek: Views of Bay Shore, Long Island by William Glackens, by Geoffrey K. Fleming. Huntington Museum of Art, 2017. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The book h...

Jonas Lie (1880-1940), by William H. and Carol Lowrey Gerdts. Spanierman gallery, 2005. First Edition hardcover. 120 page exhibition catalog, in color with some fold-out examples of ...

American Impressionism Hardcover Book by William H. Gerdts. American Impressionism Book by William H. Gerdts Hardcover Book. Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 paintings by 125 different artists, this volume contains documentary photographs of the artists and quotations from their private letters and journals complementing the text. Good copy bound in cloth with an equally fine dust wrapper. 336 pages; Beginning with a brief prelude discussing the roots of Impressionism in America and its relationship to French Impressionism, Gerdts recounts the early adventures of American artists in Claude Monet's village of Giverny, evaluates Impressionism's progress from an avant-garde aesthetic to its triumph during the 1813 Chicago World Fair and its replacement by the radical styles of Cubism and Futurism. Also studies how Impressionism flourished across the United States and includes an exhaustive bibliography. Among the masters reproduced are Childe Hassam, John Twachtman...

Willard Metcalf (1858-1925) was an important American Impressionist, member of the American Watercolor Society, and teaching at Cooper Union and the Art Student's League. This comp...

Gorgeous late 19th century Tonalist landscape painting of foothills and oak trees in the style of Willard Leroy Metcalf circa 1900. Inscribed "M" in circle monogram lower left corner and on frame verso. Presented in original rustic giltwood frame. Image size: 6"H x 8"W. Framed size: 8.5"H x 10.5"W. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette. Tonalist paintings are softly expressive, suggestive rather than detailed, often depicting the landscape at twilight or evening, when there is an absence of contrast. Tonalist paintings could also be figurative, but in them, the figure was usually out of doors or in an interior in a low-key setting with little detail. Tonalism had its origins in the works of the French Barbizon school and in the works of American painters who were influenced by them. California Tonalism was born when the emphasis in California landscape painting passed from the grand landscapes of works like those of Thomas Hill and William Keith's early career, to more intimate views of a domesticated landscape. At the same time, the parallel Pictorialist Photography...

Winter Afternoon oil on canvas panel signed LL image is 12 x 16 Here is a beautiful winter scene painted by one of my favorite artists to collect, Junius Allen, who was a former P...