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1840 Baltimore, Maryland - 1896 Summit, New Jersey. Known for: Genre, landscape, marine and American colonial history painting.
History painter Alfred Wordsworth Thompson was born in 1840 in Baltimore, studying at Newton University. By the time of the Civil War, Thompson was an artist for the Illustrated London News and... Read full biography
History painter Alfred Wordsworth Thompson was born in 1840 in Baltimore, studying at Newton University. By the time of the Civil War, Thompson was an artist for the Illustrated London News and Harper's Weekly, interested in events in Virginia. But his interest was apparently not very strong, for,... Read full biography
History painter Alfred Wordsworth Thompson was born in 1840 in Baltimore, studying at Newton University. By the time of the Civil War, Thompson was an artist for the Illustrated London News and Harper's Weekly, interested in events in Virginia. But his interest was apparently not very strong, for, in 1861, he went to Paris to study art, eventually at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1864, exhibiting at the Salon of 1865. Returning to New York City in 1868, he exhibited at the National Academy of... Read full biography
History painter Alfred Wordsworth Thompson was born in 1840 in Baltimore, studying at Newton University. By the time of the Civil War, Thompson was an artist for the Illustrated London News and Harper's Weekly, interested in events in Virginia. But his interest was apparently not very strong, for, in 1861, he went to Paris to study art, eventually at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1864, exhibiting at the Salon of 1865. Returning to New York City in 1868, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design in that year, becoming an Associate in 1875. His realistic, brightly colored "Ruins of the Palace of St. Cloud in the Winter of 1871", he was able to gift to the Academy upon becoming a member, and it became well known throughout the country. The... Read full biography
History painter Alfred Wordsworth Thompson was born in 1840 in Baltimore, studying at Newton University. By the time of the Civil War, Thompson was an artist for the Illustrated London News and Harper's Weekly, interested in events in Virginia. But his interest was apparently not very strong, for, in 1861, he went to Paris to study art, eventually at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1864, exhibiting at the Salon of 1865. Returning to New York City in 1868, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design in that year, becoming an Associate in 1875. His realistic, brightly colored "Ruins of the Palace of St. Cloud in the Winter of 1871", he was able to gift to the Academy upon becoming a member, and it became well known throughout the country. The National Academy was a successful sales outlet for Thompson. Over the years, he sold 125 paintings there, thou... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesOld Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
2003Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton252 pages (color)Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000Cuthbert, John A.301 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesInventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
1996Burns, Sarah380 pagesRevisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Carr, Carolyn K408 pages (color)Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory The Civil War in Art
1993Holzer, Harold/Mark E Neely Jr336 pages (color)A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992Kloss, William (et al)375 pages (color)The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991Weinberg, H Barbara295 pages (color)The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesAmerican Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface430 pages (color)Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Blaugrund, Annette304 pages (color)Faces and Figures in American Drawings
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Bloch, E Maurice99 pagesAnnual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings612 pagesLook Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art
1989Pennington, Estill Curtis200 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings472 pagesNineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection
1986Novak, Barbara326 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pages300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesAmerican Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45
1985Spasky, Natalie671 pagesArtists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983Wright, R Lewis200 pagesAmerican Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982Koke, Richard J1,243 pagesDictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982Soria, Regina332 pagesRepresentative Works of Contemporary American Artists
1978Trumble, Alfred139 pagesOur American Artists 1879 and 1881 (reprints in one volume)
1977Benjamin, S G W145 pagesThree Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)270 pages (color)Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Naylor, Maria1,075 pagesNineteenth Century American Painting
1970Flexner, James Thomas256 pagesO! Say Can You See The Story of America through Great Paintings
1970Ray, Frederick E189 pages (color)History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954Clark, Eliot296 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesA History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932Hartmann, Sadekichi363 pagesThe History and Ideals of American Art
1931Neuhaus, Eugen444 pagesCommemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
1925
(Exhibition catalog)National Academy of Design160 pagesArt in America a Critical and Historical Sketch
1879Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele214 pages