American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century Part 1

In no era in the history of Western art have so many artists invested so much thought and passion in the depiction of the physical conditions of the world as the nineteenth century. This volume includes spectacular landscape paintings by the Hudson River school - Beirstadt, Church, Cole, and Durand - numerous marine paintings, Heade's view of nature, several portraits by Eakins, and Homer's Breezing Up (A Fair Wind).Kelly, Franklin is the author of 'American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century Part 1' with ISBN 9780894682155 and ISBN 0894682156.