THE PAINTED SKETCH: American Impressions From Nature 1830-1880

Annotated catalog of 91 works-19th century oil sketches-with five chapters: Each chapter deals with different aspects of landscape painting and features a different artist. The Artist in the Field, The Alchemy of the Studio,  The Oil Sketch on Display, Collecting the Painted Sketch, and The Oil Sketch as Art. This is the first volume to focus on the sketches of major American artists of that period. Beautiful illustrations by artists such as Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Daniel Huntingdon, John Frederick Kensett, Jaspar Francis Cropsey, Jervis McEntee, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Albert Bierstadt, and Worthington Whittredge. A stunning look at plein air painting in 19th-century American Art. Published to accompany the exhbition held in Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, June 21 to Sept. 20, 1998, two other locations. Out of Print. Condition: Very Fine/As New. In Shrink Wrap.