Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape | 
 enlarge | Authors: Barbara Bloemink, Sarah Burns, Gail Davidson, Karal Ann Marling, Floramae Mccarron-cates
Publisher: Bulfinch
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 366966
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 192
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0821257862
Dewey Decimal Number: 758.17309730747471
EAN: 9780821257869
ASIN: 0821257862
Publication Date: May 17, 2006
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During the years following the Civil War, many artists, including Homer, Church, and Moran, created images of America's scenic wonders and great landscape icons. These works, as well as decorative art objects, popular literature, photographs, and other ephemera helped to make the country's landscape a source of national pride and promoted landscape tourism. FREDERIC CHURCH, WINSLOW HOMER, AND THOMAS MORAN: Tourism and the American Landscape is a major exhibition mounted by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum which will showcase, for the first time in more than two decades, the museum's extraordinary collection of more than 2000 paintings and drawings, which encompasses the largest grouping of Homer and Church objects in the world. Five original essays will accompany the 200 illustrations.
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Travel Paintings from Early America October 17, 2007
Mike Eggert (Novato, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a big fan of American Impressionism and I like all three of the artists featured in this book. It's a scholarly review of the images that made Americans travel to see if the scenery was as magical as these artists depicted. From the New England coast, Niagra Falls, Grand Canyon, and Yosemite these artist were engaging in a recording of scenery that would soon be altered by the hordes of tourists that followed.
While photography was just beginning to record many of these same scenes it was not in color and it lacked the ephemeral quality that master painters like Church, Homer, and Moran were able to create.
I'm fairly certain this is the first time three of my favorite artists are featured in one book and show favorite scenes of magnificent American places.
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