Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Charles Bird King became famous for his portraits of distinguished Native Americans. He studied with Samuel King, colonial painter, and then at age 15, ran away to New... Read full biography
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Charles Bird King became famous for his portraits of distinguished Native Americans. He studied with Samuel King, colonial painter, and then at age 15, ran away to New York City where he worked in the studio of Edward Savage. From 1805 to 1812, he lived in London,... Read full biography
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Charles Bird King became famous for his portraits of distinguished Native Americans. He studied with Samuel King, colonial painter, and then at age 15, ran away to New York City where he worked in the studio of Edward Savage. From 1805 to 1812, he lived in London, studying with Benjamin West and sharing a studio with Thomas Sully. In 1816, he settled in Washington D.C., becoming the city's first significant resident artist. He did portraits of politicians and then... Read full biography
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Charles Bird King became famous for his portraits of distinguished Native Americans. He studied with Samuel King, colonial painter, and then at age 15, ran away to New York City where he worked in the studio of Edward Savage. From 1805 to 1812, he lived in London, studying with Benjamin West and sharing a studio with Thomas Sully. In 1816, he settled in Washington D.C., becoming the city's first significant resident artist. He did portraits of politicians and then spent 16 years on a commission to paint members of a five-tribe Indian delegation, which came to the city in 1821. The results became the basis of the National Indian Portrait Gallery. The originals burned, but lithography copies remain. He did an... Read full biography
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Charles Bird King became famous for his portraits of distinguished Native Americans. He studied with Samuel King, colonial painter, and then at age 15, ran away to New York City where he worked in the studio of Edward Savage. From 1805 to 1812, he lived in London, studying with Benjamin West and sharing a studio with Thomas Sully. In 1816, he settled in Washington D.C., becoming the city's first significant resident artist. He did portraits of politicians and then spent 16 years on a commission to paint members of a five-tribe Indian delegation, which came to the city in 1821. The results became the basis of the National Indian Portrait Gallery. The originals burned, but lithography copies remain. He did an occasional still life, some of them in trompe l'oeil style including The Vanity of an Artist'... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (108)
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Southwest Art History Conference Abstracts, 1996-2013
2014
Fahlman, Betsy (Editor)
217 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
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 pages (color)
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
2000
Troccoli, Joan Carpenter
218 pages (color)
American Indian Portraits Elbridge Ayer Burbank in the West (1897-1910)
2000
Wolfe, M Melissa
88 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from Warner Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Curry, David; Elizabeth O'Leary
78 pages (color)
Whitney Gallery of American Art
1997
Boehme, Sarah E
78 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Native Americans: A Portrait: The Art and Travels of Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Boderm
1997
Moore, Robert J
279 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress
1994
Tyler, Ron
197 pages (color)
William M Harnett (exhibition several artists) (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Bolger, Doreen; Marc Simpson; John Wilmerding
333 pages (color)
American Icons
1992
Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor)
390 pages
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
Meet Your Neighbors New England Portraits, Painters/1790-1850 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Larkin, Jack (others)
143 pages (color)
West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection
1991
Cunningham, Elizabeth
131 pages (color)
Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro)
136 pages (color)
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)
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)
Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art
1989
Pennington, Estill Curtis
200 pages (color)
Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images
1989
Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan
304 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Frontier America: Art From Buffalo Bill Historical Center
1988
Fees, Paul; Sarah E Boehme
128 pages (color)
Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts
1988
Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor)
328 pages (color)
The West Explored The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Gerald Peters Gallery
93 pages (color)
History of Western American Art
1987
Hassrick, Royal B
192 pages (color)
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
A Century of American Landscapes 1812-1912 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Schwarz-Philadelphia
30 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
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)
American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference
1984
Reaves, Wendy Wick
285 pages
The Capital Image Painters in Washington 1800-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cosentino, Andrew; Henry H. Glassie
280 pages (color)
The Gerald Peters Collection A Selection of Paintings
1983
Peters, Gerald
96 pages (color)
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
Artists of the Old West
1982
Ewers, John C
240 pages (color)
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 Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts
228 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)
Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro)
298 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 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 Painting of Charles Bird King
1977
Cosentino, Andrew F
214 pages (color)
Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977
Miles, Ellen G (editor)
176 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Indian Legacy of Charles Bird King
1976
Viola, Herman J
152 pages (color)
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 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
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians
1972
Horan, James D
373 pages (color)
The De-definition of Art Action Art to Pop to Earthworks
1972
Rosenberg, Harold
256 pages
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
Harmsen's Western Americana
1971
Harmsen, Dorothy
212 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
The Reality of Appearance: Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Frankenstein, Alfred
156 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
The American Scene A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
74 pages (color)
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century
1969
Novak, Barbara
350 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans
1969
Stewart, Robert G
93 pages
Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Dickson, Harold E
234 pages
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
American Paintings for Public and Private Collections
1967
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
52 pages (color)
The Adams Papers Portraits of John and Abigail Adams
1967
Oliver, Andrew
284 pages
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Read Mullan Gallery of Western Art (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Read Mullan Gallery
40 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 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)
American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union
1953
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission) (Exhibition catalog)
1950
U S National Capital S C
270 pages
Still-Life Painting in America
1947
Born, Wolfgang
144 pages
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 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
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)
1918
Dunlap, William
418 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit
1915
Walter, John; Pedro Lemos
112 pages
The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70