Author: Gerdts, William H.
Title: Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still-Life, 1801-1939
Description: Columbia, Mo, University of Missouri Press, 1981. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt letters on spine 293 pp. 32 color, 144 bw repros. A massive work with 32 full-page plates. Eleven chapter headings include "American Still-Life Painting: Explanations, Estimations, Expectations"; "In The Beginning"; "The Peale Dynasty"; "Beyond The Peales: Professional and Folk"; "An Abundance of Still Life: The Still Life of Abundance"; "Thematic Expansion: Flowers, Fish and Dead Game"; "The Poetic Flower"; "William Michael Harnett and Illusionism"; "The Still-Life Heritage of Munich and Paris"; "The Still Life in Early Modernism"; "Vernacular Modernism: Cubist-Realist Still Life and Beyond". Very lengthy bibliography, both of general works and of individual artists, index, index to illustrations. A terrific resource to have at one's fingertips. VG/VG .

Keywords: 20th Century; American Painting; Still Life ; Still Life Painting ; American Painting ; Still Life General Art - American


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