| Description |
226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"Proceedings of a conference held at the American Antiquarian Society, April 30-May 2, 1993." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Training in the workshop of Abner Reed / Donald C. O'Brien -- The lithographic workshop, 1825-50 / David Tatham -- American drawing books and their impact on Fitz Hugh Lane / Elliot Bostwick Davis -- The plan book drawings of the New Orleans notarial architects: legal background and artistic development / Sally K. Reeves -- Set to music: the engravers, artists, and lithographers of New Orleans sheet music / Florence M. Jumonville -- Art, industry, and education in Prang's chromolithograph factory / Michael Clapper -- Quiet pleasures / Sinclair Hitchings -- The imp of the reverse / Bruce Chandler -- The graver, the brush, and the ruling machine: the training of late-nineteenth-century wood engravers / Ann Prentice Wagner -- John Sloan's newspaper career: an alternative to art school / Elizabeth H. Hawkes -- Educating American designers for industry, 1853-1903 / Nancy Austin -- Art museum schools: the rise and decline of a new institution in nineteenth-century America / Joyce Woelfle Lehmann. |
| Subject |
Artists -- Training of -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Barnhill, Georgia Brady, 1944-
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Korzenik, Diana, 1941-
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Sloat, Caroline.
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American Antiquarian Society.
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| Added Title |
Cultivation of artists in 19th-century America |
| ISBN |
0944026753 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| OCLC # |
36215077 |
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