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William H. Gerdts (1929–2020)

Auteur van American impressionism

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William H. Gerdts was born in 1929 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Amherst College and a master's degree and PhD in fine arts from Harvard University. He has served as curator of art at the Norfolk (Virginia) Museum and resident director of the historic Myers toon meer House in Norfolk, as curator of painting and sculpture at the Newark (New Jersey) Museum, and as gallery director at the University of Maryland (College Park), where he also taught art history. He is an art historian and professor of art history at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of 25 books on American art including Art Across America. Two Centuries of Regional Painting and American Impressionism. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van William H. Gerdts

American impressionism (1980) 199 exemplaren
California Impressionism (1998) 42 exemplaren
Impressionist New York (1994) 29 exemplaren
Twelve American masterpieces (1998) 21 exemplaren
Theodore Clement Steele (2006) 18 exemplaren
William Glackens (1996) 17 exemplaren
Jonas Lie (1880-1940) (2005) 16 exemplaren
Ten American Painters (1990) 16 exemplaren
Alice Schille (2001) 13 exemplaren
American still-life painting (1971) 11 exemplaren
Art Across America 7 exemplaren
The World of Theodore Wores (1999) 4 exemplaren
American Luminism (1978) 2 exemplaren
Leon Dabo's Florals (2013) 1 exemplaar

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Twelve artists are featured in this gallery catalog. I was familiar with several of them, Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, Frederick Remington, but the one I turned to first was the marine painter Fitz Hugh Lane, The painting, "A Storm, Breaking Away: Vessel slipping her cable" The reviewer was extremely knowledgeable in the subject and through his analysis I learned how little I know about seamanship.
I will read some of the reviews of the artists I don't care much about, Maybe I will learn why other people like them.… (meer)
 
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Mapguy314 | May 18, 2020 |
Remarkable how much information and how many tiny paintings are included.
 
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RaskFamilyLibrary | 2 andere besprekingen | Jan 11, 2019 |
Exhibition catalog from 1990, this is an enormously welcome addition to the literature on American Impressionism. I have long searched for one biography (if you will) on this group, as they formed their own loosely organized society to exhibit annually. Wonderfully written essays by ten different scholars on each of The Ten artists, this work collects them as a whole and individually, with a well-written introductory history by Gerdts. An outstanding work in total, it is the sum of its parts.
 
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Opusnight | Sep 14, 2014 |
This impressive volume has much to recommend it; well written the very readable text is both illuminating and interesting and the high quality reproduction of the paintings is a delight. The author divides the text into four sections: Prelude, to 1886; Rising Perceptions 1886-1893; The Years of Truth 1893-1898; and The Impressionist Establishment 1889-1915.
It concludes with an extensive general and artist specific bibliography.

The illustrations run with the text, and as is often the cases in such publications the text and the illustration to which it refers rarely appear on the same page. A large number, but by no means all, of the images are reproduced in colour; and they vary in size from little more than thumb-nail to the impressive full page. In some cases the photography is superb, and the reproduction vividly conveys the richness of the original along with the brush work and texture of the paint, but the standard here is not consistent and some reproductions appear flat by comparison, and the black and white images are not inspiring. It is a well laid out book with good typography, and it certainly has a feel of quality.

American Impressionism is a fine most valuable volume, but put alongside the recently revised Soviet Impressionist Painting by Vern G Swanson, ISBN 0789207370, the quality and consistency of the reproductions is shown to be lacking.
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