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1817 Pompey, New York - 1904 Albany, New York. Known for: Cameo portrait, portrait painting.
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Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor... Read full biography
Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor whose themes were often religious, especially dominated by Christianity, and the tone was often... Read full biography
Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor whose themes were often religious, especially dominated by Christianity, and the tone was often romantic and melodramatic. He was born at Pompey, New York, and first worked as a carpenter and pattern maker, carving wood molds, and then took up cameo cutting. However, his eyesight suffered with the... Read full biography
Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor whose themes were often religious, especially dominated by Christianity, and the tone was often romantic and melodramatic. He was born at Pompey, New York, and first worked as a carpenter and pattern maker, carving wood molds, and then took up cameo cutting. However, his eyesight suffered with the detail work, and instead he modeled portrait busts in clay, and then worked them in marble*. The detailed work was detrimental to his eyesight, however, and he turned to modeling portrait busts* in clay later to be put into marble. In 1849, Palmer... Read full biography
Erastus Dow Palmer is significant to art historians as the first well-known American Neo-Classical* sculptor to pursue his professional career at home rather than abroad in Italy. He was a sculptor whose themes were often religious, especially dominated by Christianity, and the tone was often romantic and melodramatic. He was born at Pompey, New York, and first worked as a carpenter and pattern maker, carving wood molds, and then took up cameo cutting. However, his eyesight suffered with the detail work, and instead he modeled portrait busts in clay, and then worked them in marble*. The detailed work was detrimental to his eyesight, however, and he turned to modeling portrait busts* in clay later to be put into marble. In 1849, Palmer began exhibiting at the National Academy of Design* in New York City, and in 1856, had a one-man show at the Church of the... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesPhoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)352 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesAmerican Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume One: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865
1999Tolles, Thayer (Editor); Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler451 pages (color)Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998Calo, Mary Ann328 pagesAmerican Art History and Culture
1994Craven, Wayne687 pages (color)Art & Empire The Politics of Ethnicity in th US Capitol 1815-1860
1992Fryd, Vivien Green273 pagesArt Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings612 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesAmerican Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984Baigell, Mathew420 pagesSculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984Craven, Wayne782 pagesPre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure
1984Harding, Jonathan P185 pagesDictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984Opitz, Glenn B (editor)656 pagesThe Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981Rugoff, Milton669 pages (color)The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1980Hibbard, Howard592 pages (color)The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III325 pages (color)Dictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesAmerican Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979Brown, Milton W (others)616 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel730 pagesThe Fine Arts in America
1979Taylor, Joshua C264 pagesAmerican Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977Brown, Milton W631 pages (color)American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977Ekdahl, Janis260 pages200 Years of American Sculpture
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Armstrong, Tom336 pages (color)A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan
1976Tracy, Berry and Howat, John82 pages (color)American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
1974Buffalo Fine Arts Academy80 pagesThe Great American Nude A History in Art
1974Gerdts, William H224 pages (color)Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Naylor, Maria1,075 pages19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
1970
(Exhibition catalog)Howat, John K (others)220 pages (color)The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America
1970Lynes, Russell514 pagesThe Arts in America The Nineteenth Century
1969Garrett, Wendell (others)412 pagesThe American Tradition in the Arts
1968McLanathan, Richard492 pagesThree Centuries of American Art
1966
(Exhibition catalog)Goodrich, Lloyd150 pages (color)American Art A Historical Survey
1966Green, Samuel M706 pagesArt and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966Larkin, Oliver W559 pages (color)Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art
1956
(Exhibition catalog)King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross63 pagesHistory of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954Clark, Eliot296 pagesYankee Stonecutters: The First American School of Sculpture, 1800-1850
1944Gardner, Albert T. E.0 pagesAmerican Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941New York Historical Society367 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesA History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932Hartmann, Sadekichi363 pagesArt and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
1927Fairman, Charles E0 pagesArt in America a Critical and Historical Sketch
1879Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele214 pages