Henry Adams

An insightful and essential new survey of Wyeth’s entire career, situating the milestones of his art within the trajectory of 20th-century American life This major retrospective catalogue explores the impact of time and place on the work of beloved American painter Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009). While previous publications have mainly analyzed Wyeth’s work thematically, this publication places him fully in the context of the long 20th century, tracing his creative development from World War I through the new millennium. Published to coincide with the centenary of Wyeth’s birth, the book looks at four major chronological periods in the artist’s career: Wyeth as a product of the interwar years, when he started to form his own “war memories” through military props and documentary photography he discovered in his father’s art studio; the change from his “theatrical” pictures of the 1940s to his own visceral responses to the landscape around Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his family’s home in Maine; his sudden turn, in 1968, into the realm of erotic art, including a completely new assessment of Wyeth’s “Helga pictures”—a series of secret, nude depictions of his neighbor Helga Testorf—within his career as a whole; and his late, self-reflective works, which includes the discussion of his previously unknown painting entitled Goodbye, now believed to be Wyeth’s last work.

A groundbreaking portrait of the intense personal and artistic relationship between Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, revealing how their friendship changed American art. The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton’s highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock’s days as a student under Benton. Pollock’s first and only formal training came from Benton, and the older man soon became a surrogate father to Pollock. In true Oedipal fashion, Pollock even fell in love with Benton’s wife.Pollock later broke away from his mentor artistically, rocketing to superstardom with his stunning drip compositions. But he never lost touch with Benton or his ideas—in fact, his breakthrough abstractions reveal a strong debt to Benton’s teachings. In an epic story that ranges from the cafés and salons of Gertrude Stein’s Paris to the highways of the American West, Henry Adams, acclaimed author of Eakins Revealed, unfolds a poignant personal drama that provides new insights into two of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

Thomas Eakins is widely considered one of the great American painters, an artist whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Victorian era into the modern age. He is also acclaimed as a paragon of integrity, one who stood up for his artistic beliefs even when they brought him personal and professional difficulty--as when he was fired from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art for removing a model's loincloth in a drawing class.Yet beneath the surface of Eakins's pictures is a sense of brooding unease and latent violence--a discomfort voiced by one of his sitters who said his portrait "decapitated" her. In Eakins Revealed , art historian Henry Adams examines the dark side of Eakins's life and work, in a startling new biography that will change our understanding of this American icon. Based on close study of Eakins's work and new research in the Bregler papers, a major collection never fully mined by scholars, this volume shows Eakins was not merely uncompromising, but harsh and brutal both in his personal life and in his painting. Adams uncovers the bitter personal feuds and family tragedies surrounding Eakins--his mother died insane and his niece committed suicide amid allegations that Eakins had seduced her--and documents the artist's tendency toward psychological abuse and sexual harassment of those around him.This provocative book not only unveils new facts about Eakins's life; more important, it makes sense, for the first time, of the enigmas of his work. Eakins Revealed promises to be a controversial biography that will attract readers inside and outside the art world, and fascinate anyone concerned with the mystery of artistic genius.

This book presents drawings that Andrew Wyeth retained for his own collection -- many preliminary to well-known paintings. Created over more than five decades, from 1951 to 2005, they range from portraits of family members and friends to vibrant depictions of objects, landscapes, and buildings in and around the artist's homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. These works reflect the insight, emotion, and technique that are uniquely his. They demonstrate Wyeth's extraordinary skill as a draftsman and the accuracy with which he sees light and dark, enabling him to model forms while suggesting the very substance and texture of what he sees. "I have always been powerfully affected by Andrew Wyeth's drawings and studies -- particularly those studies that do not attempt to cover the whole surface of the paper but instead focus on a few elements, so that the image seems to emerge magically from the empty white background, rather like a photograph that we observe in the process of development." -- Henry Adams

Traces Benton's life and career, shows how he used drawings and sketches to create his major paintings and murals, and assesses his place in American art

What's American about American art? Author Henry Adams examines 60 important works from the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, and comes up with some surprising answers. This prominent art historian finds unexpected diversity in a discussion that ranges from Native American artifacts to the work of Jackson Pollock. Profusely illustrated with more than 80 pages of color plates, many iconic images from this collection of American art are explored, from the works of John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, and Winslow Homer, to the art of George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, among many others.

Few American artists have incited more controversy than Thomas Hart Benton. Argumentative, brilliant, and enormously influential, Benton painted for nearly seventy years, inspiring acclaim and loathing among students, friends, fellow artists, and outraged critics.Now, in a series of provocative essays, premier Benton scholar Henry Adams examines the many facets of the man as artist and the pitched battles of his long career, including the fight that raged over the subject matter of his murals, the real reasons for Benton’s feud with the radical left and his fall from grace in the New York art world, and his tumultuous, 36-year-long love-hate relationship with the student with whom he worked most closely, another iconic artist of the 20th century, Jackson Pollock. Adams ends with an account of his own twenty-five-year struggle to expose fakes of Benton’s work.

Cleveland-based designer Scheckengost, still working at age 94, is best known for his children's toys, such as bicycles and pedal cars. The exhibition for which the volume serves as a catalogue was held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, November 2000 through February 2001. The pieces illustrated include ceramics, metal sculpture, automobiles, and other work in addition to toys. Distributed in the US by University of Washington Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Five great American museums have pooled their outstanding works to create an unequaled survey of art in the United States from prehistory to the present day, a glorious treasury of American creativity. It follows many of the strands that have been woven into the pattern of American society, its cultural richness springing from the diversity of its citizenry. Here are masterpieces of painting, sculpture, photography, crafts, and the decorative arts from The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; The Saint Louis Art Museum; and The Toledo Museum of Art. Here is the finest of Native American pottery, basketry, and beadwork. Here is silver by Paul Revere II, a Baltimore album quilt, glass by Tiffany Studios, and furniture by Frank Lloyd Wright. Here are paintings by George Caleb Bingham, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Romare Bearden, Andrew Wyeth, Jackson Pollock, Ellsworth Kelly, and Andy Warhol. Here are sculptures by Frederic Remington, Paul Manship, David Smith, and Alexander Calder. Here are photographs by Timothy O'Sullivan, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis W. Hine, James Van Der Zee, Paul Strand, Berenice Abbott, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus. Here, in 162 full-color plates, is the wonderful panorama of American art in a richly produced presentation certain to appeal to all lovers of art and Americana. Its eight sections are introduced by brief essays that provide a succinct view of the social and artistic context for the works of art. Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art was written by twenty-seven authorities from the curatorial staffs of the participating museums, each of which is hosting the two-year touring exhibition of the same works.

Softcover exhibition catalogue, published 2006. Stapled binding, 48 pages. Illustrated in color and black & white. Includes an Edris Eckhardt chronology, and a list of selected collections that have acquired her works.

Western Reserve Historical Society Publication No. 205, catalog for the exhibition The Golden Age of Cleveland Art 1900 to 1945, December 2021 to April 2022.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Pioneering Modernism: Post-Impressionism in Cleveland, 1908-1913', Cleveland Artists Foundation, May 24-July 27, 2013. Exhibition curated by Lawrence Waldman and Henry Adams

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Out of the Kokoon: Cleveland's Festival of Modern Art and Dance, 1911-1938, Cleveland Public Library, Fine Arts and Special Collections, August 1-December 31, 2011Out of the Kokoon: Cleveland's Festival of Modern Art and Dance, 1911-1938 / Henry AdamsThe kreation of the Kokoon KlubThe Kokoon Klub bal masquesThe art of the KokoonThe carnivalesqueThe commercial arts on Cleveland, 1908-1938 / Lawrence Waldman1931 Kokoon Arts Club rosterChecklist of the exhibitionBal masques timelineKokoon Arts Club timeline

A catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July-September 1992. In addition to the Nelson collection, works are included from the U. of Kansas' Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, and from several notable private collections in Kansas City. The artists represented include Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, John La Farge, Thomas Hart Benton, Andrew Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, Georgia O'Keefe, and Joseph Stella. Each exhibited item is reproduced, and described and discussed in some detail. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. This strikingly beautiful volume is the first monograph published on La Farge in fifty years, and the first ever to do justice to the full range of his mastery. Perhaps the greatest of this artist's many achievements was his achievements in revolutionising the art of stained glass - approximately 300 hundred windows are securely recorded as his work, some of which are now lost; among the survivors can be counted a number of masterpieces. Chronology; list of major exhibitions and sales; current locations of John La Farge's decorative works; checklist of the exhibition; Bibliography. --biblio.com

John Raimondi (b. 1948) is a contemporary American artist whose more than 100 monumental works of outdoor sculpture have earned him international distinction and acclaim. During his forty-five year career, he has experimented with a wide variety of styles, ranging from the simplicity of strong, angular lines and planes to the more graceful, curvilinear renditions of the natural world and human figure, to improvisational elements in his dignified series on American jazz greats and Indian chiefs.A constant in every style and approach in Raimondi's sculpture is his classical sense of design and craftsmanship along with his keen appreciation for scale and a subject's social meaning. His sculptural works are also distinctive in how they are made not cast in bronze but formed, rolled, welded, and fabricated into shape from large sheets of bronze or Cor-Ten steel. The results are unforgettable pieces that are monumental yet elegant, solid yet ethereal.Behind most of Raimondi's sculptural pieces are his conceptual drawings, which are works of art in their own right. These drawings based on astute observations in the field and an immersion into scholarly readings become fundamental, singular translations of the artist's feel for and understanding of a subject. The drawings are then rendered into cardboard models that become templates for larger-scale models for the eventual work of art. Raimondi then makes new drawings of the completed sculpture in order to provide a sense of closure and complete the artistic process.John Raimondi: Drawing to Sculpture is a seminal new book that presents not only an unprecedented number of Raimondi's sculptures and drawings, but also a sense of his ever-evolving career and creative approach to making unforgettable art. The book also complements a forty-five-year retrospective of Raimondi's work at the Boca Raton Museum of Art."

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American Art Review chronicles the emergence and growth of American painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and decorative arts . . . with intelligence, sensitivity, style, authority and historical insight. Our sources are the museums, galleries, archives, universities, private collections, families and friends of the artists, wherever the most significant American art now resides.

The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize.

Unique Top 25 19th-century events historical context afterword1889 English edition in a modern, visually pleasing book layoutA Political History Classic by the author Henry Adams."History of the United States of America, Volume 1" by an acclaimed American author is a classic book of political history first published in 1889.A celebrated historical narrative, filled with pivotal events that shaped the nation.Sneak "In the dawn of a new nation, political intrigue and vision converge as the nation's foundations are laid.""Delve into the fascinating account of Thomas Jefferson's first administration, exploring the political landscape of early America, brimming with key decisions and historic milestones."A Stunning At Westen Classics, we uphold the original integrity of this book, preserving its earliest form for your indulgence. An ideal gift for history enthusiasts or a cherished addition to your collection. Start reading today!