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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: James Abbott Mcneill Whistler, John French Sloan, Hugh Merrill, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Lynn Shaler, Alphaeus Philemon Cole, Don Freeman, Helen Hyde, Henry Farrer, George Elbert Burr, Karl Hagedorn, Joseph Pennell, Louis Conrad Rosenberg, Carol Lummus, Edwin Forbes, Frank Enders, Leon Pescheret, Glenn Gore, Wedo Georgetti, Thomas Handforth. Excerpt:Alphaeus Philemon Cole Alphaeus Philemon Cole (July 12, 1876 November 25, 1988) was an American artist, engraver and etcher . He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in New York City. He was the son of noted engraver Timothy Cole . At the time of his death, at age 112 years and 136 days, Alphaeus was the world's oldest verified living recognized man . Biography Cole studied art first under Isaac Craig, in Italy, then in Paris from 1892 to 1901 with Jean Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant at the Académie Julian , and later at the École des Beaux-Arts . In the mid-1890s, he began to produce many vibrant works, mostly various still lifes and portraits. His painting of Dante was exhibited in the 1900 Paris Salon , and more artwork was displayed at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York . Cole moved to England and married sculptress Margaret Ward Walmsley in 1903. He began to venture into the fields of wood/steel engraving and etching, but these works sold predominantly less than his portraits. He contributed several drawings to the Encyclopædia Britannica . They moved again, to the United States, in 1911. In 1918, Cole became a member of the Salmagundi Club , the nation's oldest professional art club. From 1924 to 1931, he taught portrait and still life classes at Cooper Union . He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1930. He was the president of the New York Water Color Club from 1931 to 1941... ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: James Abbott Mcneill Whistler, George Inness, Leon Dabo, Theodore Scott-Dabo, Xavier Martínez, Jack Cassinetto, Dwight William Tryon, Arthur Frank Mathews, Angel de Cora, Percy Gray, Thomas Dewing, Bruce Porter, Tonalism, Joseph Decamp. Excerpt:Angel De Cora Dietz was a Winnebago painter, illustrator, Native American rights advocate, and teacher at Carlisle Indian School . She was the best known Native American artist before World War I . Background Angel De Cora Dietz (1871-1919), or Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka (Fleecy Cloud Floating in Place), was born at the Winnebago Agency in Dakota County (now Thurston), Nebraska, on May 3, the daughter of David Tall Decora, a Winnebago of French ancestry. Her mother was a member of the influential LaMere family. Career Angel was played an important role in the turn-of-the-century, since she exhibited her art to both Native and non-Native audiences. She understanding being Indian, had personally experienced historical trauma of being assimilated and had witnessing genocide. Her understood ancestral historical trauma through the tearing apart of Winnebago families, culture, and land. Still she maintained a strong resilience in life to overcome and flourish. She successfully adapted to the Euro-American culture. Artwork In her art work, Angel De Cora painted firelight to illuminate warm memories of her childhood life on the Nebraska plains after she settled far from home in the east". Her oil Painting, "for an Indian school exhibit, for the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York" demonstrates the technical prowess and emotional depth of her art. Unfortunately not much of De Cora's original paintings remain, but she illustrated her own stories published in Harper's Magazine and illustrated books. The 1911 Yellow Star: A Story of East West ... ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1904 edition by William Heinemann, London. ... Read more