Around 1920, David Reasoner and two other Boston artists (Henry O'Connor (1891-1975) and Frederick Rhodes Sisson (1893-1962)) became apprentices and assistants to Abbott Handerson Thayer at the... Read full biography
Around 1920, David Reasoner and two other Boston artists (Henry O'Connor (1891-1975) and Frederick Rhodes Sisson (1893-1962)) became apprentices and assistants to Abbott Handerson Thayer at the well-known painter's home and studio in Dublin, New Hampshire. Thayer's publications about the... Read full biography
Around 1920, David Reasoner and two other Boston artists (Henry O'Connor (1891-1975) and Frederick Rhodes Sisson (1893-1962)) became apprentices and assistants to Abbott Handerson Thayer at the well-known painter's home and studio in Dublin, New Hampshire. Thayer's publications about the "concealing coloration of animals" had influenced the development of Allied wartime camouflage during WWI. In various sources, Reasoner, O'Connor and Sisson have been described as Thayer's "copyists" (they made... Read full biography
Around 1920, David Reasoner and two other Boston artists (Henry O'Connor (1891-1975) and Frederick Rhodes Sisson (1893-1962)) became apprentices and assistants to Abbott Handerson Thayer at the well-known painter's home and studio in Dublin, New Hampshire. Thayer's publications about the "concealing coloration of animals" had influenced the development of Allied wartime camouflage during WWI. In various sources, Reasoner, O'Connor and Sisson have been described as Thayer's "copyists" (they made precise duplicates of his unfinished paintings, from which he then went on to make different finished versions). Also cited as an assistant in Thayer's studio was a painter named Grace Dredge (1895-?), originally from Des Moines, Iowa. Thayer's... Read full biography
Around 1920, David Reasoner and two other Boston artists (Henry O'Connor (1891-1975) and Frederick Rhodes Sisson (1893-1962)) became apprentices and assistants to Abbott Handerson Thayer at the well-known painter's home and studio in Dublin, New Hampshire. Thayer's publications about the "concealing coloration of animals" had influenced the development of Allied wartime camouflage during WWI. In various sources, Reasoner, O'Connor and Sisson have been described as Thayer's "copyists" (they made precise duplicates of his unfinished paintings, from which he then went on to make different finished versions). Also cited as an assistant in Thayer's studio was a painter named Grace Dredge (1895-?), originally from Des Moines, Iowa. Thayer's health (both physical and mental) was declining rapidly in the winter of 1920-1921, and according to Gladys (called Galla) Thayer, the artist'... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (146)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage
2009
Behrens, Roy R.
461 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Cornish Art of the Past Century: Art for Art's Sake
2001
Gilbert-Smith, Alma
24 pages (color)
American Paintings: 1860-1940
2000
Greer, Gina; Andrea Smith
0 pages
The Gilded Edge
2000
Wilner, Eli et al
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Carl W Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester
1999
Love, Richard H
927 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
American Art From the Dicke Collection
1997
The Dayton Art Institute
264 pages (color)
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
1996
Burns, Sarah
380 pages
Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire
1996
Colby, Virginia Reed; James B. Atkinson
526 pages
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Angels of Art Women and Art in American Society 1876-1914
1996
Van Hook, Bailey
287 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Women of Fashion French and American Images of Leisure 1880-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Weisberg, Gabriel P
188 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
Freer: A Legacy of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Lawton, Thomas; Linda Merrill
272 pages (color)
Italian Presence in American Art 1860-1920
1992
Jaffe, Irma B
265 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
Sadakichi Hartmann Critical Modernist, Collected Art Writings
1991
Weaver, Jane Calhoun (editor)
410 pages
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Americans and Paris (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Marlais, Michael Andrew
62 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Frank W Benson A Retrospective (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Chambers, Bruce W (others)
264 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerdts, Abigail Booth
208 pages (color)
Looking Back A Perspective on the 1913 Inaugural Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Marling, Karal Ann
55 pages (color)
In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts
120 pages (color)
Winter (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hall, Donald/Clifton C Olds
138 pages (color)
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1986
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
148 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1986
Salinger, Margaretta
200 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
A Circle of Friends Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
New Hampshire, U of
138 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Kopitske, Christine (Editor)
144 pages (color)
The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gerome
1984
Weinberg, H Barbara
113 pages
The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Detroit Institute of the Arts
272 pages (color)
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
The Book of Nature: American Painters & the Natural Sublime Hudson River Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Murphy, Frank (Essay)
112 pages (color)
Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1983
National Academy of Design
175 pages (color)
Abbott Handerson Thayer (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Anderson, Ross
142 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
Solitude Inner Visions in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Terra Museum of American Art
41 pages (color)
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Flower Painting
1980
Anderson, Dennis R
84 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
American Impressionism: The Henry Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Gerdts, William H
179 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of Painting Indianapolis Museum of Art
1980
Janson, Anthony/A Ian Fraser
295 pages (color)
Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design
1980
Novak, Barbara and Annette Blaugrund
213 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
An American Bestiary
1979
Haverstock, Mary Sayre
248 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11)
1977
Weinberg, H Barbara (intro)
240 pages
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Exhibition catalog)
1976
McShine, Kynaston
178 pages (color)
The Ten
1976
Pierce, Patricia Jobe
201 pages (color)
American Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University
1976
Ross, Barbara T
132 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
American Wildlife Painting
1975
Norelli, Martina
224 pages (color)
To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art
1975
Taylor, Joshua C
117 pages (color)
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Barry Faulkner: Sketches from an Artist's Life
1973
Faulkner, Barry
208 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The Hand and Spirit Religious Art in America 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dillenberger, Jane/J C Taylor
192 pages (color)
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
The American Impressionists
1972
Hoopes, Donelson F
160 pages (color)
Rhode Island School of Design Bulletin/American Watercolors & Drawings
1972
Ostraw, Stephen/Susan Carmalt
76 pages
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor
1971
Graham, F Lanier
111 pages (color)
French Impressionists Influence American Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Lowe Art Museum
96 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
The History of the Brooklyn Art Association with Index of Exhibitions (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Marlor, Clark S
0 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums
1969
Brockton Art Center
48 pages
The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century
1969
Garrett, Wendell (others)
412 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
Sixty Paintings Brooks Memorial Art Gallery
1966
McNight, Robert J
70 pages
Limners and Likenesses
1965
Burroughs, Alan
246 pages
American Painting from 1830
1965
Everson Museum of Art
63 pages (color)
American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters
1965
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
141 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
The Naked Truth and Personal Vision The Length of the Artistic Road (Addison Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
112 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
100 American Painters of the 20th Century
1950
Metropolitan Museum
132 pages (color)
Still-Life Painting in America
1947
Born, Wolfgang
144 pages
The American Artist and His Times
1941
Saint-Gaudens, Homer
332 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Art Institute of Chicago
110 pages
The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America
1937
Caffin, Charles H
396 pages
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today (Exhibition catalog)
1937
Editor, Cleveland Museum of Art
78 pages
The Main Currents in the Development of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
80 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Art in America In Modern Times (1865-1934)
1934
Cahill, Holger/Alfred H Barr
110 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
American Painting & Sculpture 1862-1932 (Exhibition catalog)
1932
Museum of Modern Art
135 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Art in America
1929
La Follette, Suzanne
361 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)