The American Tradition in the ArtsHarcourt, Brace & World, 1968 - 492 pages |
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Page 36
... called Spanish chairs , were upholstered in leather or flame - stitch em- broidery like the squabs on the day beds , which were another new furniture type . Slant - top desks became more common with the increase in letter writing . The ...
... called Spanish chairs , were upholstered in leather or flame - stitch em- broidery like the squabs on the day beds , which were another new furniture type . Slant - top desks became more common with the increase in letter writing . The ...
Page 45
... called the first native school of American painting developed at the very beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury in the Valley , with a group of portraits that reflect the re- moteness and rustic dignity of life there at that early date ...
... called the first native school of American painting developed at the very beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury in the Valley , with a group of portraits that reflect the re- moteness and rustic dignity of life there at that early date ...
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... called triclinia , used in Ro- man times at banquets . Phyfe's favorite chair forms were also Classically derived : the klismos , or Greek side chair , as seen on ancient grave - re- liefs ; and the curule chair , an interpretation of ...
... called triclinia , used in Ro- man times at banquets . Phyfe's favorite chair forms were also Classically derived : the klismos , or Greek side chair , as seen on ancient grave - re- liefs ; and the curule chair , an interpretation of ...
Contents
Spain and France in the New World | 4 |
The Seventeenth Century | 11 |
The Tradition and the Arts of the Puritans | 15 |
Copyright | |
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1817 LIBRARIES Academy admired Alexander Jackson Davis Allston American art American painting appeared architect architecture Armory Show artists Audubon became Benjamin West Boston buildings built Bulfinch Capitol carved century Charles Charles Bulfinch Chicago Church Classic colonies complete contemporary Copley Courtesy Davis decorative drawings Eakins early England engravings Europe exhibition experience expression famous fashionable figure Frank Lloyd Wright French furniture Gallery gift Gothic Greenough Henry Historical Horatio Greenough Hudson Hudson River School interior James John John Singleton Copley Karolik Collection landscape later lived London marble Massachusetts ment MICHIGAN monumental Museum of Art National nature painter Palace Paris Pennsylvania period Philadelphia Photograph portrait rich River Romantic Ryder Samuel F. B. Morse Samuel McIntire scene sculpture ship Street style Thomas Cole tion town tradition ture turned UNIVERSITY vision Washington water color West William Winslow Homer wrote York young