Author: WILMERDING, JOHN
Title: American Light the Luminist Movement, 1850-1875- Paintings, Drawings, Photographs
Description: Washington, D. C.: Harper & Row / National Gallery of Art, 1980. Hardcover. ISBN: 0064389405. B & W and Color; 11 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 1 1/4; 330 pages; Oblong shaped hard cover is dark blue with silver lettering on the spine. Small label on front end paper with a number on it . Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. DJ has slight rubbing; in a mylar cover. Lavishly illustrated 352 b/w half tones and 32 plates, in full color. This is the exhibition catalog of more than 160 paintings, 49 drawings and watercolors, and 47 photographs reflecting the luminist period in 19th-century American landscape painting. Emphasis on the work of Fitz Hugh Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, Sanford Gifford, John F. Kensett, and Frederic Edwin Church, as well as their antecedents and successors in the Hudson River School. Bibliography; index. Oversized, 4#.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0064389405 Reference; Exhibition Catalogues; Museum Catalogue; Art Movements; 19th Century American Artists; Paintings; Drawings; Photographs; Landscape Painting;