David Adams Cleveland

 
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A groundbreaking survey of the school of expressive, symbolic landscape painting that gave rise to American modernism―newly revised and updated

This magnificent volume, featuring more than 750 illustrations, is the first definitive account of the Tonalist movement. Based on original research, it tells the fascinating story of how the progressive Tonalist landscape first dethroned the Hudson River School in the late 1870s and went on to become the dominant school in American art until World War I. More provocatively, it also situates Tonalism at the beginnings of American modernism, revealing how the movement’s later exponents laid the groundwork for the artists of the Stieglitz Circle, and subsequently Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, and Wolf Kahn.

A History of American Tonalism places the key figures of the movement―such as George Inness, James McNeill Whistler, and John Henry Twachtman―in their cultural context, which was influenced by such thinkers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and William James. It also examines the lives and careers of more than sixty other Tonalist painters, lesser known but highly talented.

This new edition of A History of American Tonalism is augmented with more than one hundred new illustrations, as well as a new overview of the stylistic principles of Tonalism. It will continue to be essential in understanding not only the Tonalist movement but American art as a whole.

 
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This book provides the first complete account of the life and work of Charles Warren Eaton. It also fills an enormous gap in American art history by telling the story of the Tonalist movement.

 
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Beginning in 1985, Wickiser's paintings of the stream begin to evolve into a purer form of abstraction. This marked a radical departure from the stream as he had painted it from 1975 to 1985. From 1985 until his death in 1998 the stream continued to be a source of inspiration and synthesis of representation and abstraction. The hardcover edition includes 128 pages, with 104 illustrations including 62 plates in full color. The book includes an introduction by David Adams Cleveland, an illustrative history by Ralph Wickiser, as well as essays by Gerrit Henry, Lilly Wei and Judd Tully.

 
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The first edition of Ralph L. Wickiser's The Reflected Stream, The Early Years 1975-1985. Ralph L. Wickiser well known painter and educator and author of the following books, An introduction to Art Activities (New York, Greenwood Press, 1969, 1947), An Introduction to Art Education (Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y., World Book Co., 1957), Mardi Gras Day (by Ralph L Wickiser; Caroline Durieux; John McCrady New York, H. Holt, 1948) concentrates on the Reflected Stream paintings which he is well known for during the period of 1975 - 1985. The hardcover edition includes 128 pages, with 94 illustrations including 56 plates in full color. The book includes an introduction by David Adams Cleveland, illustrative history of Ralph Wickiser by Walter Wickiser, as well as essays by Gerrit Henry, Lilly Wei, and Judd Tully.