William H. Gerdts (1929–2020)
Autore di American impressionism
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di William H. Gerdts
All Things Bright & Beautiful: California Impressionist Paintings from the Irvine Museum (1998) 15 copie
Grand Illusions: History Painting in America (Anne Burnett Tandy Lectures in American Civilization) (1988) 9 copie
Art Across America 7 copie
Revealed masters : 19th century American art : [catalogue of] an exhibition organized by American Federation of Arts,… (1974) 6 copie
Indiana influence : the golden age of Indiana landscape painting, Indiana's modern legacy : an inaugural… (1984) 5 copie
The Sewell C. Biggs Collection of American Art: A Catalogue (volume 1 & 2, hardcover) (2002) 4 copie
Complementary visions of Louisiana art : the Laura Simon Nelson collection at the Historic New Orleans Collection (1996) 3 copie
Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection (2017) 2 copie
Thomas Moran, 1837-1926 2 copie
The art of Henry Inman 2 copie
America the Beautiful: 19th and 20th Century Paintings From the Walter and Lucille Rubin Collection 1 copia
The Pastels of Leon Dabo 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gerdts, William H.
- Nome legale
- Gerdts, William Henry
- Data di nascita
- 1929-01-18
- Data di morte
- 2020-04-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Luogo di morte
- White Plains, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- COVID-19
- Luogo di residenza
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Newark, New Jersey, USA - Istruzione
- Harvard University (PhD|1966)
Amherst College (AB|1949) - Attività lavorative
- art historian
university professor emeritus - Relazioni
- Dee, Elaine Evans (former spouse)
- Organizzazioni
- City University of New York Graduate Center
University of Maryland
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Remarkable how much information and how many tiny paintings are included.
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.
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.… (altro)
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.… (altro)
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 57
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.… (altro)