Wilmerding John Professor (6 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A Very Good copy with a touch of shelfwear and names of previous owners stamped on the ffep and half-title page.

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. BB 71.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. In Very Good+ condition. In a panoramic narrative John Wilmerding has brought together individual studies of the artists who painted Mount Desert Island off the Maine coast in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The figures most central to this chronology are the pioneers, Thomas Doughty, Alvan Fisher, and Thomas Cole, who generalized and romanticized nature in their visits of the 1830s and 1840s, Fitz Hugh Lane in the 1850s, and Frederic Edwin Church in the 1850s and 1860s. Each drew and painted extensively at Mount Desert. In particular, they recorded the northern sunsets in forms that made Americans give serious thought to the significance of their country?s geography and its destiny. Other artists, among them William Stanley Haseltine, Sanford Gifford, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and, more recently, Richard Estes, continued to come to Mount Desert and to find in its light, air, and rock formations the kind of scenery that inspired a rich diversity of visual expressions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 10.20 X 9.70 X 0.70 inches; 128 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed by co-author John Wilmerding on the title-page. A Very Good copy with a touch of shelfwear and slight bumping to the corners.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good .Ships From Multiple Locations. book.