A leading satiric genre painter of his time, David Blythe did work that often commented on the American court system and also depicted poverty-stricken street children. He was born in East Liverpool,... Read full biography
A leading satiric genre painter of his time, David Blythe did work that often commented on the American court system and also depicted poverty-stricken street children. He was born in East Liverpool, Ohio to Irish and Scottish parents. He had little formal art training but at age 16, apprenticed to... Read full biography
A leading satiric genre painter of his time, David Blythe did work that often commented on the American court system and also depicted poverty-stricken street children. He was born in East Liverpool, Ohio to Irish and Scottish parents. He had little formal art training but at age 16, apprenticed to Joseph Woodwell, a woodcarver from Pittsburgh. He also observed artists' work in a local gathering place owned by J.J. Gillespie. From 1837 to 1840, he was a ship's carpenter and traveled to Boston... Read full biography
A leading satiric genre painter of his time, David Blythe did work that often commented on the American court system and also depicted poverty-stricken street children. He was born in East Liverpool, Ohio to Irish and Scottish parents. He had little formal art training but at age 16, apprenticed to Joseph Woodwell, a woodcarver from Pittsburgh. He also observed artists' work in a local gathering place owned by J.J. Gillespie. From 1837 to 1840, he was a ship's carpenter and traveled to Boston and the West Indies and then became an itinerant portrait painter from 1841 to 1845. He traveled throughout Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio and during this time began painting scenes of city life. This work, which was humorous and satiric, contrasted... Read full biography
A leading satiric genre painter of his time, David Blythe did work that often commented on the American court system and also depicted poverty-stricken street children. He was born in East Liverpool, Ohio to Irish and Scottish parents. He had little formal art training but at age 16, apprenticed to Joseph Woodwell, a woodcarver from Pittsburgh. He also observed artists' work in a local gathering place owned by J.J. Gillespie. From 1837 to 1840, he was a ship's carpenter and traveled to Boston and the West Indies and then became an itinerant portrait painter from 1841 to 1845. He traveled throughout Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio and during this time began painting scenes of city life. This work, which was humorous and satiric, contrasted greatly with his solemn, primitive portraits. In 1846, he settled in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, m... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (91)
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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
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
2003
Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton
252 pages (color)
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 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
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
At Beck and Call: Domestic Servants In 19th Century Painting
1996
O'Leary, Elizabeth L
305 pages (color)
Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art
1995
Adams, H. and Johnson, K.
192 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Picturing a Nation Art and Social Change in 19th Century America
1994
Lubin, David M
364 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory The Civil War in Art
1993
Holzer, Harold/Mark E Neely Jr
336 pages (color)
A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Columbus Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life
1991
Johns, Elizabeth
250 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Old Money
1988
Chambers, Bruce
0 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem
1988
Wooden, Howard E
212 pages
The Figure in American Art 1764-1983 Three Simultaneous Exhibitions: Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Baur, John I.H.
72 pages (color)
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)
American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all
314 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries
1981
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
163 pages
Art of America Selected Painting and Sculpture, 1770-1981
1981
Kennedy Galleries
64 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The World of David Gilmore Blythe
1980
Chambers, Bruce W
216 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
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)
Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer
189 pages
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Richardson, Edgar P
247 pages (color)
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 Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 pages (color)
The Story of American Painting
1974
Davidson, Abraham A
168 pages (color)
The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hills, Patricia
160 pages (color)
American Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure
192 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)
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Masterworks by Pennsylvania Painters in Pennsylvania Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dickson, Harold E
64 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Wunderlich, Rudolf G; Lawrence A. Fleischman
64 pages (color)
What Is American in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black
80 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
Forty Masterworks of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
57 pages (color)
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 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)
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Public Education Association
64 pages (color)
North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned) (Exhibition catalog)
1967
North Carolina Museum of Art
192 pages
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966
North Carolina Museum of Art
118 pages (color)
Limners and Likenesses
1965
Burroughs, Alan
246 pages
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
Gardner, Albert and S Field
284 pages
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111)
1962
Flexner, James Thomas
407 pages
American Classics 0f the Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Carnegie Institute
40 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Arizona State College Collection American Art
1956
Arizona State College
108 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
The Arizona State College Collection of American Art
1954
Arizona State University
110 pages
American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection
1953
Brooklyn, Museum
48 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
The Life and Work of David G Blythe
1950
Miller, Dorothy
142 pages
American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission) (Exhibition catalog)
1950
U S National Capital S C
270 pages
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Modern American Painting
1939
Boswell, Peyton Jr
207 pages (color)
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