Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a... Read full biography
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting. However, his real love was the... Read full biography
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting. However, his real love was the depiction of animals, and he was the first American artist to paint race horses. Fisher was a student in Boston of John Ritto Penniman, ornamental painter. He first went to Europe in 1825, and then set up... Read full biography
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting. However, his real love was the depiction of animals, and he was the first American artist to paint race horses. Fisher was a student in Boston of John Ritto Penniman, ornamental painter. He first went to Europe in 1825, and then set up his studio in Boston where prominent artists such as Washington Allston, Chester Harding and Asher Durand became his good friends. His records show that he sold nearly 1000 paintings between 1826 and 1863, indicative of his astuteness as a... Read full biography
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting. However, his real love was the depiction of animals, and he was the first American artist to paint race horses. Fisher was a student in Boston of John Ritto Penniman, ornamental painter. He first went to Europe in 1825, and then set up his studio in Boston where prominent artists such as Washington Allston, Chester Harding and Asher Durand became his good friends. His records show that he sold nearly 1000 paintings between 1826 and 1863, indicative of his astuteness as a businessman. He traveled throughout the United States, recording observations in his notebooks.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (102)
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Defining A Nation: Paintings of Nineteenth-Century America, Featuring the Wheeler Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Vose Galleries, Boston (essays by Rachel Beaupre and Courtney Kopplin)
25 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors A Compendium of Favorite Articles from the First Twelve Issues
2006
The Vose Family
65 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Maine: A Legacy in Painting, 1830 to the Present (Spanierman Galleries Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Chambers, Bruce (essay)
108 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline
2004
Vose, Marcia (editor)
38 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Nineteenth Century: Rediscovering American Painters (Vose Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn
40 pages (color)
All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Driscoll, John Paul
144 pages (color)
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
The Art of the Horse
1995
Fairley, John
192 pages (color)
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-75
1995
Novak, Barbara
329 pages (color)
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen
266 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture
1992
Kammen, Michael
192 pages
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991
Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.
271 pages (color)
Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro)
136 pages (color)
American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life
1991
Johns, Elizabeth
250 pages (color)
The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography
1991
Sullivan, Mark W
225 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Sport in Art From American Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown
128 pages (color)
Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings
1988
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
1,160 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes 1697-1901 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adamson, Jeremy Elwell
167 pages (color)
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Anderson, Patricia
90 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 pages (color)
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Owens, Gwendolyn
111 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Gerdts, William H
120 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers
196 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Nature and Culture American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875
1980
Novak, Barbara
323 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980
Troyen, Carol
204 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)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum
1979
Teitz, Richard Stuart
118 pages
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876
1976
Riggs, Timothy A
95 pages
American Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University
1976
Ross, Barbara T
132 pages
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes
1976
Wadsworth Atheneum
96 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum
1975
Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay)
182 pages (color)
To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art
1975
Taylor, Joshua C
117 pages (color)
American Paintings (in) The Rhode Island Historical Society
1974
Goodyear, Frank H
116 pages (color)
The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hills, Patricia
160 pages (color)
The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art
1974
Parry, Ellwood
189 pages
19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay)
95 pages (color)
The American Frontier Images and Myths (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Hills, Patricia
64 pages
American Drawings and Watercolors
1973
University of Kansas Museum
80 pages
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes
94 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hawes, Louis
143 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Our American Heritage Loan Exhibition New Britain Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Bernard Danenberg Galleries
36 pages
Boston Painters 1720-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Boston University
70 pages
Hudson River School (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Genesco, S U College, New York
200 pages
The Connecticut Artists Collection
1968
Mattatuck Historical Society
84 pages
History of American Marine Painting
1968
Wilmerding, John
179 pages (color)
American Marine Painting (2nd Edition)
1968
Wilmerding, John
204 pages (color)
Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953
1963
Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all
178 pages (color)
History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111)
1962
Flexner, James Thomas
407 pages
American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Pasadena Art Museum
64 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection
1953
Brooklyn, Museum
48 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
Hudson River Artists Highlights among the
1947
Sears, Clara Endicott
280 pages
The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition (Exhibition catalog)
1945
Sweet, Frederick A
123 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
230 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)
1927
Isham, Samuel
608 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)