Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint by copying works at the Royal Institute. He also assisted American Indian painter George Catlin,... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint by copying works at the Royal Institute. He also assisted American Indian painter George Catlin, with his traveling Indian gallery that he had brought to England, and Tait was impressed with Catlin's subject matter and skill. In 1850, Tait came to America to pursue his interest in wildlife and... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint by copying works at the Royal Institute. He also assisted American Indian painter George Catlin, with his traveling Indian gallery that he had brought to England, and Tait was impressed with Catlin's subject matter and skill. In 1850, Tait came to America to pursue his interest in wildlife and hunting, sports that were closed to the public in aristocratic England. He worked primarily from a studio in New York City and never got west of Chicago. Becoming a skilled woodsman and marksman, he acquired excellent first-hand knowledge that he brought... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint by copying works at the Royal Institute. He also assisted American Indian painter George Catlin, with his traveling Indian gallery that he had brought to England, and Tait was impressed with Catlin's subject matter and skill. In 1850, Tait came to America to pursue his interest in wildlife and hunting, sports that were closed to the public in aristocratic England. He worked primarily from a studio in New York City and never got west of Chicago. Becoming a skilled woodsman and marksman, he acquired excellent first-hand knowledge that he brought to his paintings. As a result, his realistic genre hunting scenes, with their story-telling aspects, made him one of the 19th century's most po... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (116)
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
American Wildlife Art
2010
Wagner, David
424 pages (color)
Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
2009
Harris, Adam Duncan
262 pages (color)
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)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Winter 2003, Volume XI
2003
Vose, Marcia Latimore (Editor)
36 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
2000
Troccoli, Joan Carpenter
218 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles
1998
McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator)
223 pages (color)
Plain Pictures Images of the American Prairie (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Kinsey, Joni
256 pages (color)
Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper
1995
Barnhill, Georgia B
99 pages (color)
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress
1994
Tyler, Ron
197 pages (color)
The Empire of the Eye Landscape and American Cultural Politics 1825-1875
1993
Miller, Angela
298 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West
1992
Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon
217 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection
1991
Cunningham, Elizabeth
131 pages (color)
American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life
1991
Johns, Elizabeth
250 pages (color)
Philbrook Museum of Art Handbook to the Collections
1991
Philbrook Museum of Art
250 pages (color)
America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
112 pages
Masterpieces of Western American Art
1991
Sweeney, J Gray
239 pages (color)
The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Truettner, William H
386 pages (color)
Art of the Golden West
1990
Axelrod, Alan
418 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
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gustafson, Donna (others)
191 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1989
National Gallery of Art
203 pages (color)
American Western Art
1989
Rockwell Museum
84 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West
1988
McCracken, Harold
232 pages
Collecting the West The C R Smith Collection of Western American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Saunders, Richard H
211 pages (color)
History of Western American Art
1987
Hassrick, Royal B
192 pages (color)
American Frontier Life Early Western Painting and Prints
1987
Tyler, Ron; Carol Clark, Linda Ayres, et all
192 pages (color)
Arthur Fitzwilliams Tait Artist in the Adirondacks
1986
Cadbury, Warder H
344 pages (color)
The Artist as Reporter
1986
Hogarth, Paul
192 pages
Two Hundred Years of American Art
1986
Munson Williams-Proctor Inst
101 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)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920 (Volume 1)
1985
Pisano, Ronald G
167 pages (color)
American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45
1985
Spasky, Natalie
671 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 pages (color)
Four Centuries of Sporting Art
1984
Schmitt, Victoria Sandwick
165 pages
Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
1983
Cunningham, Elizabeth
152 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays)
351 pages (color)
How the West Was Drawn American Art and the Settling of the Frontier
1982
Glanz, Dawn
205 pages
Legacy of the West
1982
Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher
157 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Anschutz Collection
150 pages (color)
Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries
1981
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
163 pages
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
The West as Romantic Horizon
1981
Goetzmann, William H and Joseph C. Porter; David Hunt (Biographies)
128 pages (color)
America in Print 1796-1941 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
128 pages (color)
Animals in American Art 1880's-1980's (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nassau County Museum
64 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Denver Art Museum Major Works in the Collection
1981
Ritchie, Margaret
304 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection
1979
Broder, Patricia Janis
155 pages (color)
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 Democratic Art: An Exhibition on the History of Chromolithography in America, 1840-1900 (Amon Carter Museum) (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Marzio, Peter, C
112 pages (color)
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
The Bison in Art A Graphic Chronicle of the Ameican Bison (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Barsness, Larry
142 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The Way West Art of Frontier America
1977
Hassrick, Peter H
240 pages (color)
Nineteenth-Century American Print From the Dartmouth College Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shackelford, George T M
116 pages
American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923)
1976
Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy
119 pages
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
A Panorama of American Painting The John J McDonough Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bullard, E John
119 pages (color)
A F Tait/Artist in the Adirondack (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Adirondack Museum
75 pages
The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hills, Patricia
160 pages (color)
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
The American Frontier Images and Myths (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Hills, Patricia
64 pages
The Chromolithographs of Louis Prang
1973
McClinton, Katharine M.
246 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
Louis Prang Color Lithographer: Giant of a Man
1971
Freeman, Larry
190 pages (color)
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
Harmsen's Western Americana
1971
Harmsen, Dorothy
212 pages (color)
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
American Art from the Denver Art Museum Collection
1969
Curator
127 pages
American Sports and Sportsmen Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Kennedy Galleries
48 pages
The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Public Education Association
64 pages (color)
The Artist and the Sportsman (The National Art Museum of Sport) (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Scott, Martha B.
95 pages (color)
With An Eye on the Gallery American Painters in Oil
1966
Dodd, Loring Holmes
251 pages
American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966
North Carolina Museum of Art
118 pages (color)
The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation)
1965
Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson
162 pages (color)
American Muse, The
1961
Dorra, Henri
163 pages (color)
American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Pasadena Art Museum
64 pages
Rediscovered Painters of Upstste New York/1700-1875
1958
Jones, Agnes Halsey
80 pages
Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1956
King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross
63 pages
Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of)
1956
McCracken, Harold
32 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Westward the Way: Louisiana Territory as Seen by Artists and Writers
1954
Rathbone, Perry T (editor)
280 pages (color)
Portrait of the Old West
1952
McCracken, Harold
216 pages (color)
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 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
Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People