"Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890) was one of the most talented painters of late nineteenth-century America. He was among the first Americans to use the bright colors and broken brushstrokes of the new Impressionist style; his beautiful landscapes and portraits are sought after by the most distinguished collectors of American art.Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist is the first comprehensive study of this important American artis ..."
Hyman Bloom(1st Edition) Matters of Life and Death by EricaHirshler, Hyman Bloom, Naomi Slipp Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by Mfa Publications, Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston ISBN-13: 978-0-87846-861-4, ISBN: 0-87846-861-7
"Themes of mortality and spirituality in the long-neglected art of a midcentury American pioneer“Bloom’s unsettling paintings are fueled by a sense of existence as a state of spiritual emergency and of art as a means for transfiguring fear.” –Holland Cotter, Art in America Hyman Bloom was a contemporary of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky. This new study focuses on Bloom’s paintings and drawings of human corpses, anat ..."
William Merritt Chase(1st Edition) by EricaHirshler, William Chase Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2016 by Mfa Publications, Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston ISBN-13: 978-0-87846-839-3, ISBN: 0-87846-839-0
"Praised for his jewel-like landscapes, park scenes, and sympathetic images of women, William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) was a leading American Impressionist painter and an influential teacher in the late 19th century. This beautifully illustrated volume provides a compact introduction to Chase’s paintings and pastels and samples several of his favorite motifs, including the theatrical environment of his antique-filled studio, the modern ..."
"A landmark retrospective that examines William Merritt Chase and his lasting contribution to the history of modern art The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849 1916), one of America s influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide range of subjects in oil and pastel, including figures, landscapes, urba ..."
"The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last 400 years. From enslaved craftspersons to contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, African American artists have created a wealth of artistic expression that addresses common experiences, such as exclusion from dominant cultural institutions, and confronts questions of identity and community. T ..."
"Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargents close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in th e act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a creative stamp. Brilliant as these pictures are as works of art and penetrating studies of character, they are also records of relationships , allegiances, influences and aspirations. This volume, and ..."
"John Singer Sargent: Painting Friends features a fascinating selection of over forty of the artist's portraits of his circle of associates - artists, writers, actors and musicians, many of whom he knew well. In contrast to his well-known society portraits, these works were rarely the result of commissions, and so are often more informal and radical in style. Beautifully reproduced here, the selection includes portraits from major intern ..."
Childe Hassam(1st Edition) At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight (Mfa Spotlight Series) by EricaHirshler, Childe Hassam Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2015 by Mfa Publications, Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston ISBN-13: 978-0-87846-837-9, ISBN: 0-87846-837-4
"In this vivid account of one of Boston's best-loved paintings, leading American art specialist Erica E. Hirshler illuminates the context of Childe Hassam's 1880s city scene. With its rosy rust tones, intimate familial vignette and quiet expanse of snow-laden park, today "At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight)" seems to encourage reflection and represent a decidedly old-fashioned city. Yet Hirshler reveals the ways in which the painting vis ..."
"WINNER of the W. E. Fischelis Award from the Victorian Society in America.Accompanying a major exhibition, this is the first book devoted to the career of this renowned American painter through his brilliant portraits. John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was one of the leading painters of his generation, whose captivating portraits are universally admired for their insight into character, radiance of light and color, and painterly fluency ..."
"This the paperback version of the 2014 "Degas/Cassatt" exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The exhibition examined the friendship and working relationship between artists Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt and their influence on each others work. The fully illustrated catalog also includes essays and a bibliography."
"John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolor was unconventional. Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. One reviewer of an exhibition in London proclaimed him "an eagle in a dove-cote"; another called his work "swagger" watercolors. For Sargent ..."
""A New World Imagined" proposes a bold new look at the art of the Americas by viewing it through its intersections and relationships with the world at large. Taking the vast geography and staggering cultural diversity of the North and South American continents as its starting point, the book introduces the ways in which American art, broadly defined, has been shaped both by its encounters with cultures around the globe and by its own pa ..."
"At the end of the nineteenth century, a remarkable group of artists, writers and patrons gathered regularly at the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice. While Venice had long attracted wealthy tourists from across Europe and America, a particularly rich expatriate culture flourished at this time. In the 1880s, Daniel and Ariana Curtis of Boston purchased and restored the Palazzo Barbaro, where they lived in self-imposed exile. The Palazzo became t ..."
Impressionism Abroad(1st Edition) Boston And French Painting by EricaHirshler, Mary Anne Stevens Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2005 by Royal Academy Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-903973-77-6, ISBN: 1-903973-77-5
"Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub the Date: May. 2003 Pages: 144 in Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston possesses one of the world's with finest giving collections of 19th-century French and American art. with works by Degas. Manet. Pissarro. Renoir. Sisley. and Sargent. This colorful book. the first published on the collection. illustrates many of its highlights. Author Erica Hirshler outlines the histor ..."
"In fact, visual artists had depicted this activity many times before the arrival of
cinema. ... (1 897), The Summer Girl and Her Sweetheart (1897), She Gets the
Penny, He Gets the Kiss (1898), A Fishing Smack (1899), a poster ... Under the
Mistletoe (1899), The Platonic Kiss (1899), Affected Modesty (1901), The
Farewell Kiss (1902), Stolen Sweets (1905), ... the train, the dancer, the
strongman: these are some of the scenes, types, ..."
Impressionism Abroad(1st Edition) Boston and French Painting by EricaHirshler, Maryanne Stevens Hardcover, 114 Pages, Published 2005 by Royal Academy ISBN-13: 978-1-903973-60-8, ISBN: 1-903973-60-0
"The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston possesses one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century French and American art, with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and Sargent. This colorful book, the first published on the collection, illustrates many of its highlights.Author Erica Hirshler outlines the history of the collection and considers the taste in Boston for atmospheric landscapes which, by the late 1880s, had led ..."
"New Series MFA Highlights presents the best of the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in a new series of accessible, uniform paperback volumes. The aim of the series is threefold: to highlight the main holdings of the MFA's permanent collections in handsome, affordable editions; to provide an informed, readable overview of various segments of art, for use by students, visitors and scholars; and, over time, to create a libra ..."