A popular landscape painter, especially of golden toned landscapes that conveyed fall and winter seasons, Bruce Crane, also a teacher, was strongly influenced by the French Barbizon school of... Read full biography
A popular landscape painter, especially of golden toned landscapes that conveyed fall and winter seasons, Bruce Crane, also a teacher, was strongly influenced by the French Barbizon school of painting and had a studio for many years in Old Lyme, Connecticut. He also painted on Long Island, the... Read full biography
A popular landscape painter, especially of golden toned landscapes that conveyed fall and winter seasons, Bruce Crane, also a teacher, was strongly influenced by the French Barbizon school of painting and had a studio for many years in Old Lyme, Connecticut. He also painted on Long Island, the Catskills, and the Adirondacks. In 1882, he was in France at the colony at Grez-sur-Loring with Birge Harrison, Kenyon Cox, and Alexander Wyant, but he maintained a studio in New York City until he moved... Read full biography
A popular landscape painter, especially of golden toned landscapes that conveyed fall and winter seasons, Bruce Crane, also a teacher, was strongly influenced by the French Barbizon school of painting and had a studio for many years in Old Lyme, Connecticut. He also painted on Long Island, the Catskills, and the Adirondacks. In 1882, he was in France at the colony at Grez-sur-Loring with Birge Harrison, Kenyon Cox, and Alexander Wyant, but he maintained a studio in New York City until he moved to Bronxville in 1914. He took early art lessons from Alexander Wyant in New York City and then studied in Europe. He became a member of the National Academy of Design, the American Water Color Society, the Salmagundi Club, the Society of American... Read full biography
A popular landscape painter, especially of golden toned landscapes that conveyed fall and winter seasons, Bruce Crane, also a teacher, was strongly influenced by the French Barbizon school of painting and had a studio for many years in Old Lyme, Connecticut. He also painted on Long Island, the Catskills, and the Adirondacks. In 1882, he was in France at the colony at Grez-sur-Loring with Birge Harrison, Kenyon Cox, and Alexander Wyant, but he maintained a studio in New York City until he moved to Bronxville in 1914. He took early art lessons from Alexander Wyant in New York City and then studied in Europe. He became a member of the National Academy of Design, the American Water Color Society, the Salmagundi Club, the Society of American Artists, and the Grand Central Art Galleries. One of his great admirers was J. Francis Murphy with whom his... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (68)
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A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1940-1951 and Water Color Exhibition Records 1900-1951
2009
Katlan, Alexander W.
623 pages
Recent Acquisitions: Fall 2008 (Exhibition catalog)
2008
Editors, Vose Galleries of Boston
39 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
The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all
200 pages (color)
American Artists Abroad and Their Inspiration: Selections from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
2004
64 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Art for the New Collector II Re-Emerging American Artists (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Editor: Spanierman Gallery
64 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes Tenth Anniversary Issue Art and Collecting in America: An Illustrated Timeline
2002
Vose, Marcia L. (editor)
37 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America
1999
Jarzombek, NA, Marcia Vose
29 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two
1997
Vose Galleries
35 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Baekland, Frederick
160 pages (color)
Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991
Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.
271 pages (color)
American Watercolors From Metropolitan Museum of Art
1991
Howat, John K (foreward)
204 pages (color)
American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor
204 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 Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 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
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections
1989
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts
120 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)
Bruce Crane American Tonalist
1984
Clark, Charles and Muir, Mary
31 pages (color)
American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Kopitske, Christine (Editor)
144 pages (color)
The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Detroit Institute of the Arts
272 pages (color)
Tonalism An American Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Gerdts, William H (others)
94 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
Representative Works of Contemporary American Artists
1978
Trumble, Alfred
139 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
American Art in the Barbizon Mood (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bermingham, Peter
191 pages (color)
American Painting
1975
Heckscher Museum
32 pages (color)
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
French Impressionists Influence American Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Lowe Art Museum
96 pages (color)
Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Cohen, Mildred
0 pages
The Art Colony at Old Lyme 1900-3 (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Connecticut College for Women
67 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)