San Antonio College Library

"Time travel with inspiring and enthusiastic painter and lecturer David Dunlop to magical historic locations in the United States and France as he walks where celebrated artists such as Turner and Monet walked - seeing what they saw and how they transformed that vision into a familiar painting."--Container

Introduces the mechanics of painting by analyzing the guiding principles and techniques.

The author spotlights 50 common problems encountered by the beginning painter and provides simple, logical solutions. Each problem is shown in a typical beginner's painting and then the author shows the solution in an improved version of the student painting. Illustrated primarily with examples of oil paintings.

Color portfolio of American landscape paintings of the Hudson River School with commentary on some of the movement's leading artists, such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, whose works provided some of the first documentation of the fledgling nation's wilderness areas.

"Sanford Gifford (1823-1880), a leading Hudson River School landscape painter and a founder of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was so esteemed by the New York art world that, at his untimely death, the Museum mounted a show of his work - the first monographic exhibition accorded any artist - and published a Memorial Catalogue that, for nearly a century, remained the principal source on his oeuvre." "Gifford's art, which was inspired by the work of...

The Pennsylvania Impressionists is the first book to focus on the Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting. Starting in 1898, a group of Impressionist painters began to settle on the outskirts of New Hope, Pennsylvania. Although largely forgotten by the 1950s, these artist comprised a major school of landscape painting. Today, considerable interest has been generated by this school. The leading figure in this group, Edward Redfield, was noted for...