The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell,... Read full biography
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell, MA and died of heart disease while visiting a friend in Melrose Highlands, MA on November 17, 1897.... Read full biography
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell, MA and died of heart disease while visiting a friend in Melrose Highlands, MA on November 17, 1897. Some resources say that Ordway was born in Roxbury, MA and was raised in Lowell, MA where he first received art training in a sign painter's shop. Later, Ordway studied portraiture with George Peter... Read full biography
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell, MA and died of heart disease while visiting a friend in Melrose Highlands, MA on November 17, 1897. Some resources say that Ordway was born in Roxbury, MA and was raised in Lowell, MA where he first received art training in a sign painter's shop. Later, Ordway studied portraiture with George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) but his specialty seems to be landscapes of the New England area — he was one of the noted White Mountain School painters of the nineteenth century. Landscapes, farms, churches, coastal scenes, rivers, and cattle in... Read full biography
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell, MA and died of heart disease while visiting a friend in Melrose Highlands, MA on November 17, 1897. Some resources say that Ordway was born in Roxbury, MA and was raised in Lowell, MA where he first received art training in a sign painter's shop. Later, Ordway studied portraiture with George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) but his specialty seems to be landscapes of the New England area — he was one of the noted White Mountain School painters of the nineteenth century. Landscapes, farms, churches, coastal scenes, rivers, and cattle in pastures are typical of his oeuvre. Some of Ordway's best works, according to Mantle Fielding, were On the... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (16)
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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
Boston Art Club: 1855-1950
2000
Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn
88 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven Artists in the White Mountains,1830-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
McGrath, Robert/B J McAdam
99 pages (color)
Winter Exhibition American 19th & 20th Century Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Schwarz-Philadelphia
30 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
New Hampshire Scenery
1985
Campbell, Catherine
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
American Painters Of the Impressionist Period Rediscovered
1975
Weber, Nicholas Fox
104 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The History of the Brooklyn Art Association with Index of Exhibitions (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Marlor, Clark S
0 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index