Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (924 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393028690 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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David Park Curry's informative text provides the background essential to a full appreciation of these works. A major book on a major American Impressionist. From the late 1880s to around 1915, Childe Hassam, America's foremost impressionist, frequently visited the Isles of Shoals, the site of a summer resort popular with many American artists and writers. Paintings from Hassam's Isles of Shoals series are among the most familiar icons of late nineteenth-century American art. 105 full-color reproductions and100 black-and-white photographs.. But until now, a comprehensive selection of these beautiful works had not been collected in one place
"The Shoals Complete" according to Mr. C. The book covers what it is suppose to in a very thorough way. It's very well done at covering the ins and outs of Appledore, the community and the culture; it couldn't be better. Images cover the breadth of Hassam's oils and watercolors made around the shoals. This is a prefect book about the topic of the shoal paintings by Hassam. Biographical info ties you to the other events in the artists life throughout his career but the shoal paintings are the main topic and where all the images represent.. S. Schumacher said Childe Hassam: An Island Revisited. Having a copy of An Island Garden prompted me to buy this wonderful book. Childe Hassam's impressionists beginnings are recorded by his work from this little resort island called Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire's coast. I am so grateful to have a little window into how Chile Hassam developed into the artist he was. Celia Thaxter became his poetic muse, and this book records his work from her little garden on Appledore to lighthouses, to the rocky shoals on the coastline. I highly recommend this book.. Jean Sharry said Beautiful vintage book. Husband fell in love with Hassam at an exhibit this fall. Wanted to find the original book for him for Xmas. Perfect!
. As a frequent visitor to the Shoals, Hassam created a series of oils, watercolors, and pastels capturing their idyllic serenity. American Impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935) illustrated her book. Recommended for all American art collections.- Joan Levin, Indian Trails P.L., Wheeling, Ill.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In 1894, writer Celia Thaxter published An Island Garden describing her rambling cottage garden at Appledore, on the rocky Isles of Shoals, ten miles off the New Hampshire coast. For the first time, Curry has assembled an exhibition of many of the Shoals paintings and has written this catalog to "record not only the beauty of a poet's garden in its glory, but also the flowering of a young artist's dreams." The text provides welcome material where little exists, and the brilliant color plates evoke Hassam's aesthe
. He is the senior curator of decorative arts, American painting, and sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art. David Park Curry is a distinguished curator and scholar of American art. In addition, Curry has served as curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Denver Art Museum, and the Freer Gallery of Art