Main entry:

Black, Mary, 1922-

Title & Author:

American folk painting, by Mary Black and Jean Lipman.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publication:

New York, C.N. Potter, [1966]

Description:

xxiv, 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244).
The colonial period -- Between two wars, the heyday of the American folk artist -- The professional portrait painter: 1780-1810, 1810-1840, 1840-1850 -- Daily life in the republic -- Genre scenes -- Landscape, seascape and townscape -- Colloquial history -- Inspiration from man -- Inspiration from God -- Art instructor and fractur maker -- The illuminator -- Art instruction for young ladies -- Folk painting from the centennial to yesterday.

Summary:

"This is the most comprehensive book ever published about the charming and enduringly interesting art of the self-taught American painter who worked in the small towns and countryside. Lavishly illustrated, with almost half of the full-page reproductions in color, it includes paintings from every major private and public collection of folk art in America, some of them well known, but with numerous oils and watercolors here illustrated for the first time."--Publisher description.

Subject:

Portrait painting, American History.
Portrait painters United States.
Portrait painting, American.
Peinture de portraits américaine Histoire.
Peinture de portraits américaine.
Portraitistes États-Unis.
Portrait painters.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Lipman, Jean, 1909-1998, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 52711
Call No.: ID:90-B1537
Status: Available