Ipswich Days: Arthur Wesley Dow and His Home Town (Addison Gallery of American Art) (Addison Gallery of American Art Series (Yale)) - Hardcover

Fairbrother, Trevor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300132913 ISBN 13: 9780300132915

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Arthur Wesley Dow (1857--1922) is renowned for his paintings and prints that take their subject matter from nature and reflect the orderly design and fine handcrafting championed by the Arts and Crafts movement. This charming book presents an important discovery-a previously undocumented photograph album titled Ipswich Days comprising forty-one cyanotypes that Dow produced in 1899. Dedicated to his poet-friend Everett Stanley Hubbard, Ipswich Days offers a fresh new look at Dow's attention to the abstract aspects of form, color, and cropping in the creation of his designs while documenting his deep personal attachment to his rural and historic hometown. Ipswich Days analyzes this album and its significance in the artist's career. Each of the images--which depict Ipswich's clam shanties, marshes, farms, people, trees, flowers, and boats alike--is handsomely reproduced and reflects the beauty that Dow saw and interpreted in this quintessentially New England town.

About this title

About the Author:

Trevor Fairbrother is an independent scholar and curator. Formerly at the Seattle Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he is author of Painting Summer in New England and John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, both published by Yale.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300132913
• ISBN 13: 9780300132915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136