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American Impressionist Paintings
This handsome collection of high-quality cards showcases works by Edward C. Volkert, Lilian Westcott Hale, Willard Metcalf, Childe Hassam, Charles H. Davis, Henry Ward Ranger, and 18 other Impressionist artists.
A Deaf Artist in Early America
John Brewster Jr. (1766-1854) was one of the most prominent early American portrait painters. His hauntingly beautiful portraits have a directness and intensity of vision that were rarely equaled, as the images in this book attest. Brewster's portraits have sold astonishingly well at auction, and his work is featured in the collections of prestigious museums, yet curiously little has been written about the life of this deaf artist. Traveling the New England coast to paint the portraits of the merchant class that arose after the Revolution, he lived precisely when a Deaf-World-with its own language, social institutions, and culture-was forming. Harlan Lane, award-winning historian of the Deaf...
Florence Griswold
"Florence Griswold: The Keeper of the Artists" by Deb Adamson, illustrated by Anne Zimanski, is a wonderful book. It tells the true story of Miss Florence Griswold, who is credited with making American art history by establishing the Lyme Art Colony, the epicenter of U.S. Impressionism, which still exists today nearly 100 years later. Florence called herself, "The Keeper of the Artists" and through the late 1800's and early 1900's played hostess to some of the most famous artists in American history. It was artist Henry Ward Ranger who initially established Griswold House as a Barbizon art-colony but then years later with the arrival of Childe Hassam it was transformed into one of the larges...
Art Museums Plus
An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England
The State of Museums
Checklists, roadmaps and models Coinciding with the centenary of the New England Museums Association - a region home to many of the USA's most progressive and ground-breaking museums - The State of Museums explores the shifts in culture, urbanisation, technology, tolerance and diversity that continue to impact the mission, operation and priorities of museums worldwide. The result is thought-provoking series of must-read essays, checklists, roadmaps and models which face up to the big questions facing museums in rapidly changing times. Facing up to the big questions The State of Museums: Voices from the Field, brings together grassroots voices to explore the issues, challenges and strengths of today's museums. Edited by experienced thought leaders, in frank discussion it explores the present and future of museums and celebrates the tenets at the core of museum leaders everywhere.
Smeagull the Seagull
Smeagull the Seagull comes to the house near the shore every day and knocks on the sliding glass door. He knocks when he¿s hungry, and the people who live there feed him. Smeagull rules the roost! Keeping him fed is an exhausting job, but when Smeagull disappears, it makes clear what an important family member Smeagull has become. There are few places on earth without seagulls, both on shore and inland, and every child will find Smeagull captivating and yet familiar. Smeagull the Seagull teaches young children that animals are precious and have needs and feelings and family, just like us.This is a true story. Smeagull is a wild herring gull who does indeed knock at Valerie and Mark¿s house every day where he is fed scraps from sustainable seafood.The book is illustrated in full color by the graphic designer, Valerie Elaine Pettis. The text is written in rhyme by Mark Seth Lender, a published author and producer for wildlife content at Living on Earth, which is nationally broadcast on Public Radio.
Lyme in Mind
"This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Lyme in Mind: The Clement C. Moore Collection at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, July 18-October 18, 2009."
In Place
Ten contemporary photographers present new work that contemplates the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The site originally served as home to an art colony for Tonalist and Impressionist painters at the turn of the twentieth century. The photographers explored themes of nature, time's passage, abstraction, narrative, and memory in their work. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the Florence Griswold Museum from October 1, 2016, to January 29, 2017. Participating photographers: Tina Barney, Marion Belanger, Adrien Broom, Kate Cordsen, Peter Daitch, Alida Fish, Ted Hendrickson, Sophie T. Lvoff, James Welling, and Tom Zetterstrom.
