AMERICAN PAINTERS:
Biographical Sketches of Fifty American Artists.
WITH EIGHTY-THREE EXAMPLES OF THEIR WORKS,
Engraved on Wood in a perfect manner.
Quarto; cloth, extra gilt Price, $7.00; full morocco, $13.00.
The painters represented in this work are as follows:
CHURCH,
INNES,
HUNTINGTON,
PAGE,
SANFORD GIFFORD,
SWAIN GIFFORD,
DURAND,
R.W. WEIR,
W.T. RICHARDS,
T. MORAN,
P. MORAN,
PERRY,
BELLOWS,
SHATTUCK,
MILLER,
J.F. WEIR,
HUNT,
WHITTREDGE,
W. HART,
J.M. HART,
McENTEE,
COLMAN,
HICKS,
WINSLOW HOMER,
DE HAAS,
J.G. BROWN,
WYANT,
WOOD,
BRISTOL,
REINHART,
BRIDGMAN,
BIERSTADT,
J.H. BEARD,
W.H. BEARD,
PORTER,
G.L. BROWN,
APPLETON BROWN,
CROPSEY,
CASILEAR,
E. JOHNSON,
SHIRLAW,
CHASE,
BRICHER,
ROBBINS,
WILMARTH,
EATON,
GUY,
QUARTLEY,
HOPKINSON SMITH,
MEEKER.
The publishers feel justified in saying that the contemporaneous art of no country has ever been so adequately represented in a single volume as our American Painters are in this work, while the engravings are equal in execution to the finest examples of wood-engraving produced here or abroad.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"The richest and in many ways the most notable of fine art books is 'American Painters,' just published, with unstinted liberality in the making. Eighty-three examples of the work of American artists, reproduced in the very best style of wood-engraving, and printed with rare skill, constitute the chief purpose of the book; while the text which accompanies them, the work of Mr. George W. Sheldon, is a series of bright and entertaining biographical sketches of the artists, with a running commentary—critical, but not too critical—upon the peculiarities of their several methods, purposes, and conceptions."—New York Evening Post.
"The volume gives good evidence of the progress of American art. It shows that we have deft hands and imaginative brains among painters of the country, and it shows, moreover, that we have publishers who are liberal and cultured enough to present their works in a handsome and luxurious form that will make them acceptable. 'American Painters' will adorn the table of many a drawing-room where art is loved, and where it is made still dearer from the fact that it is native."—New York Express.
"It is at once a biographical dictionary of artists, a gallery of pen portraits and of beautiful scenes, sketched by the painters and multiplied by the engraver. It is in all respects a work of art, and will meet the wants of a large class whose tastes are in that direction."—New York Observer.