Artists in the Life of Charleston : Through Colony and State, from Restoration to Reconstruction, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 39
Overview
Charleston's greatest contribution to American painting was timely patronage of men of ability. Contents: Historical intro.; Art and artists from the 16th to the mid-18th cent.; Jeremiah Theus, Alexander Gordon, and the mid-18th cent.; Prosperous Pre-Revolutionary years; The Revolutionary years; Federal years; The academic tradition and native talent in the first quarter of the 19th cent.; Fraser, Allston, White, and Cogdell; The South Carolina Acad. of Fine Arts; Sculpture; Theatrical and decorative painters; The silhouettists; Backgrounds; Native talent and visiting strangers; "Female artists" and talented families; The daguerreotype and photography; Pre-war decades; and The war years -- 1861-1865. Illus. This is a print on demand publication.
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- ISBN-13: 9781422377086
- ISBN-10: 1422377083
- Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
- Publish Date: January 1949
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.11 pounds
- Page Count: 149
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