Luminist Horizons Cl

by Manthorne,Katherine E.

• ISBN13: 9780807615737
• ISBN10: 0807615730
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-17
• Publisher: George Braziller Inc.

Summary

Luminist Horizonscelebrates the art and collection of James A. Suydam (1819-1865), an American landscapist best known for his luminist paintings. Despite the fact that his name has been linked with luminism since the term was first coined, Suydam has not received the scholarly attention he deserves. With approximately 180 reproductions (eighty in color), this book considers Suydam's work in tandem with that of fellow Hudson River School artists such as Asher B. Durand, Frederic E. Church, and John F. Kensett and therefore contributes an important chapter to the history of American landscape painting. Significantly, Suydam's enduring legacy extends beyond his own creative output; his passionate commitment to art motivated his encouragement of emerging artists and his purchase of their paintings. When Suydam died he bequeathed ninety-two contemporary American and European paintings to the Academy, a gift that formed the nucleus of the Academy's permanent collection. Luminist Horizonsaccompanies an exhibition that opens at the National Academy Museum in New York in September 2006 before traveling to the Taft Museum of Art (Cincinnati, Ohio) and the Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah, Georgia). 80 color illustrations, 100 in black and white.

Author Biography

Mark D. Mitchell is Assistant Curator of Nineteenth-Century Art at the National Academy Museum.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction: In the Thick of Things: Suydam and the New York Art World	p. 9
Becoming a Landscape Painter	p. 17
Order in Civil War New York	p. 47
Newport and the Illusion of Art	p. 67
A Shared Artistic Life	p. 95
Luminism Revisited: Two Points of View	p. 121
James A. Suydam: Known and Recorded Works	p. 145
Inventory of the Suydam Bequest	p. 165
Suydam's Library	p. 181
Chronology	p. 189
Selected Bibliography	p. 190
Index	p. 191
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