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Fred Meijer
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Thrifty Years
"Hendrik Meijer came to Holland, Michigan, from his native Netherlands in 1907, a twenty-three-year-old factory worker with a high disdain for capitalism and a restless ambition to make his own way. Thrifty Years tells the unlikely story of that rebel in wooden shoes who opened a grocery store during the Great Depression and, in embracing the capitalism he once scorned, eventually founded a hugely successful chain that represented a new form of mass-merchandising--a hybrid of supermarket and discount department store called Meijer Thrifty Acres. This colorful biography, written by Meijer's grandson, is not just another Horatio Alger success story, for the story of the older Meijer's evolution from radical factory worker to mass merchant is told with a full appreciation of that ironic transformation. Along the way, the author paints an intriguing backdrop of the economic, social, and political forces at work in turn-of-the-century Dutch, American, and Dutch immigrant society."--Page 4 of cover.
The Collection of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward
In 1939, the Ashmolean Museum received a bequest of ninety-four still-life paintings by Dutch and Flemish artists, assembled over many years by Theodore and Daisy Linda Ward. The collection - known as the Daisy Linda Ward Bequest - is one of the most important of its kind. The original catalogue of the collection written by Professor J.G. van Gelder and published in 1950, has long been out of print. Knowledge of the subject also changed significantly since 1950. The present catalogue written by one of the leading present-day scholars of still-life paintings is much more than a revised version of van Gelder's publication. It includes an essay on the background to the collection and a discussion of the taste for and the interpretation of Netherlandish still-life painting. It also includes an extensive discussion of each of the works dealing with questions of style and content and ranging widely over other issues affecting the history of the subject. This book will serve not only as a catalogue of the collection but also as an important and up-to-date work of reference.
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
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A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525-1725
"The still life is one of the best-loved subjects in painting. For hundred years it has been depicted by great and minor masters. The genre reached its climax in the Dutch Golden Age. This handy dictionary provides information on painters of still life in oils, active between 1525 and 1725 and considered as Dutch/Flemish school. 'Still lifes' are arrangements of flowers, fruit, fish, barn, plants, game, vanitas symbols, trompe l'oeil etcetera." --Back cover.
Painting Family
Jan De Bray and his father Salomon are the greatest history painters that Haarlem ever produced. The two artists also determined the face of Harleem Classicism. Both Salomon and Jan were universally gifted, not only as painters but also as architects, p
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
This study explores the life and work of Jan Davidsz. de Heem, and examines it within the context of still-life painting in the Netherlands, particularly from the period 1626 to 1684, during which de Heem was active. In those years, certainly from c.1640 to c.1675, Jan Davidsz. de Heem was one of the leading painters of still lifes. Apart from the unmistakably high quality of his work, the fact that he worked alternately in the Northern and Southern Netherlands contributed substantially to the spreading of his renown. A thorough analysis of his oeuvre makes it clear that throughout his career, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, in addition to maintaining a high standard of quality for his work, was continuously looking for changes, innovations, and improvements, in contrast with many of his contemporaries who, once they had found their own manner, kept on repeating themselves. Also, he must constantly have kept a keen eye on the market for his works.
