Deaf Artists in America : Colonial to Contemporary

by Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl

• ISBN13: 9781581210507
• ISBN10: 1581210507
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: DawnSignPress

Summary

- Author tour to include Boston, Indianapolis, Montreal, and Washington, D.C.- Advertising in American Annals of the Deaf, Journal of Sign Language and Deaf Education, and Sign Language Studies

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	x
Preface	xiii
Introduction	xv
Deaf People in the Arts	xvi
Selection of the Artists Included in This Book	xvii
Organization of the Book	xviii
A Brief History of Deaf Culture	xviii
Deaf Schools and Language	xix
Oralism in Deaf Schools	xix
Recognition of ASL	xx
Cultural Behavior in the Deaf World	xxi
Deaf Pride and Cultural Awareness	xxii
Art Is Art	xxii
A Study in the Unknown-A New Nation	1	(34)
First Known Deaf American Artist	3	(5)
William Mercer
Portraits of Prosperous Colonial Americans	8	(5)
John Brewster
Painter of Native Americans	13	(6)
George Catlin
Earliest Known Deaf Silhouettist	19	(4)
James Hosley Whitcomb
From Stone to Lithograph: Portraits of Americans	23	(5)
Albert Newsam
Self-Reliant Artist in Pre-Deaf-Aware America	28	(7)
Augustus Fuller
Testing the Waters	35	(66)
First Deaf American Artist to Study Abroad	37	(6)
John Carlin
Painter Under the Open Sky	43	(5)
Charlotte Buell Coman
Genteel and Cultivated Artist	48	(5)
Harry Humphrey Moore
Deaf Life in Black and White	53	(8)
Theophilus Hope D'Estrella
Painting with a Camera	61	(7)
Frances Allen
Mary Allen
Impressionistic Master of Color	68	(3)
Maurice Prendergast
The Beat of Indian Drums Felt, Not Heard	71	(6)
Joseph Henry Sharp
Michelangelo of the American West	77	(12)
Douglas Tilden
An Advocate and Entrepreneur	89	(5)
Albert Victor Ballin
Inventive Amish Folk Artist	94	(7)
Henry Lapp
New Traditions	101	(70)
Nomadic Etcher	103	(7)
Cadwallader Lincoln Washburn
Depicting the Beauty of California	110	(8)
Granville Redmond
Leaders Immortalized in Bronze	118	(5)
Eugene Elmer Hannan
Portraits and Photographs of Distinguished Americans	123	(5)
Conrad Frederick Haeseler
Fascination with Cities in Print	128	(5)
Will J. Quinlan
Modern Images from Wood Blocks	133	(6)
Blanche Lazzell
Cutapuis-Man Who Talks Not	139	(5)
John Louis Clarke
You Can Go Home Again	144	(6)
Christy MacKinnon Maxcy
Scientific Illustrator	150	(6)
Regina Olson Hughes
Paintings of Southwest Landscapes	156	(5)
Kelly H. Stevens
Art Deco in the Nation's Capital	161	(4)
Charles Carroll Sullivan
Art Nouveau on Mirrors	165	(6)
Jean Hanau
Forging Ahead	171	(126)
Sculptor's Hand Guided by God	173	(9)
N. Hillis Arnold
Never Again: Artist of the Holocaust	182	(7)
David Ludwig Bloch
Early Beloved Art Biographer	189	(5)
Felix Kowalewski
The Ecstasy of Watercolors	194	(6)
Robert Freiman
Photographs of the Lost River Culture	200	(7)
Maggie Lee Sayre
Natural, Yet Abstract Sculpture	207	(4)
Frederick LaMonto
Can Be Art, Too!	211	(6)
Henry Newman Junk
Love Affair with Materials	217	(6)
Rolando Lopez Dirube
Is It Real? Realism with a Twist	223	(7)
Morris Broderson
Deaf John James Audubon	230	(5)
Louis Francis Xavier Frisino
East Meets West	235	(6)
Daniel Wang
Deafness and Space	241	(8)
David Hockney
Sought-After Portrait Painter	249	(5)
William Sparks
To Be or Not To Be Deaf	254	(7)
James Canning
Simplicity Is the Soul of Art	261	(5)
Robert Baard Peterson
Less Is More	266	(6)
Claire Haber Bergman
Reinventing a New Reality in Art	272	(6)
Charles Bourke Wildbank
Room Paintings	278	(5)
Robert Edward Behnke
Sculptural Materials Do Work Together or Don't They?	283	(5)
Gary Mayers
Timeless and Frozen Figures	288	(4)
Mary A. Rappazzo
Who Is an Outsider? You? Me? Them?	292	(5)
Jessica A. Geiger
Art Imitates Deaf Life	297	(78)
American Sign Language Books Illustrator	299	(4)
Ralph R. Miller, Sr.
Mother of the De'VIA Movement	303	(8)
Betty G. Miller
De'VIA Artist of Tranquility	311	(7)
Charles (Chuck) Crawford Baird
Violins without Strings	318	(6)
Harry R. Williams
Road Signs of Deaf Culture: Defender of Deaf Art	324	(6)
Ann Silver
Deaf Visual Metaphors	330	(6)
Mary Thornley
Language Is an Art-De'VIA Language	336	(5)
Uzi Buzgalo
Letting Go	341	(4)
Lee. S. Ivey
Breaking Boundaries in Animation	345	(5)
Mark Fisher
Exploring New Art Frontiers	350	(7)
Tony Landon McGregor
Perception of Colors and Challenges	357	(7)
Alex Wilhite
Life Is a Barrel of Laughs	364	(5)
Shawn Richardson
The Way It Is	369	(6)
Susan Dupor
Glossary of Terms	375	(18)
References	393	(8)
Index	401