Francis William Edmonds, an early American genre painter, was born in Hudson, New York in 1806. Edmonds, thanks to an uncle who arranged a clerkship for him, began his professional life as a banker... Read full biography
Francis William Edmonds, an early American genre painter, was born in Hudson, New York in 1806. Edmonds, thanks to an uncle who arranged a clerkship for him, began his professional life as a banker in New York City, and also took evening classes at the National Academy of Design. In 1827, showing... Read full biography
Francis William Edmonds, an early American genre painter, was born in Hudson, New York in 1806. Edmonds, thanks to an uncle who arranged a clerkship for him, began his professional life as a banker in New York City, and also took evening classes at the National Academy of Design. In 1827, showing enough skill to pass an admissions test by submitting artwork, he was admitted to the Academy's exclusive Antique Class. However, shortly after that, from 1828 to 1832, he was diverted from his art... Read full biography
Francis William Edmonds, an early American genre painter, was born in Hudson, New York in 1806. Edmonds, thanks to an uncle who arranged a clerkship for him, began his professional life as a banker in New York City, and also took evening classes at the National Academy of Design. In 1827, showing enough skill to pass an admissions test by submitting artwork, he was admitted to the Academy's exclusive Antique Class. However, shortly after that, from 1828 to 1832, he was diverted from his art pursuits by a banking job, which meant a move to Hudson, New York. Then, moving back to New York City, he "began a self-retraining program", and by the late 1830 was active at the National Academy where he was elected an Associate in 1837, and from 1849... Read full biography
Francis William Edmonds, an early American genre painter, was born in Hudson, New York in 1806. Edmonds, thanks to an uncle who arranged a clerkship for him, began his professional life as a banker in New York City, and also took evening classes at the National Academy of Design. In 1827, showing enough skill to pass an admissions test by submitting artwork, he was admitted to the Academy's exclusive Antique Class. However, shortly after that, from 1828 to 1832, he was diverted from his art pursuits by a banking job, which meant a move to Hudson, New York. Then, moving back to New York City, he "began a self-retraining program", and by the late 1830 was active at the National Academy where he was elected an Associate in 1837, and from 1849 until his death in 1863, served as a Trustee overseeing the Academy's financing and building of permanent quarters. During the las... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (63)
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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
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums
2004
Eldredge and Eiland
0 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
At Beck and Call: Domestic Servants In 19th Century Painting
1996
O'Leary, Elizabeth L
305 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 History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
Hidden Treasures American Paintings from Florida Colllections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Leeds, Valerie Ann
72 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life
1991
Johns, Elizabeth
250 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture Sterling & Francine Clark Institute
1990
Conrads, Martha C
219 pages (color)
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)
Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
McElroy, Guy C
190 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1989
National Gallery of Art
203 pages (color)
Francis W Edmonds American Master in the Dutch Tradition
1988
Clark, H Nichols B
178 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
Domestic Bliss Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Edwards, Lee M; Jan Seidler Ramirez; Timothy Anglin Burgard
160 pages (color)
American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum
1986
Muhlert, Jan K (intro)
128 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries
1981
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
163 pages
The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Gerdts, William H
120 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art
1981
Williams, William James
256 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 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
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Richards, Jane L
66 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)
Themes in American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Sweeney, J Gray
220 pages (color)
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
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 Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hills, Patricia
160 pages (color)
19th Century American Painting From the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Gerdts, William H
92 pages
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
The History of the Brooklyn Art Association with Index of Exhibitions (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Marlor, Clark S
0 pages
The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Public Education Association
64 pages (color)
American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters
1965
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
141 pages (color)
History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111)
1962
Flexner, James Thomas
407 pages
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
American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection
1953
Brooklyn, Museum
48 pages
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
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 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 History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One