Born and raised in Alabama, Frederick Bridgman became known for his Oriental motif paintings of North Africa, inspired by his teacher Jean-Leon Gerome. However, later in his career he diverged to... Read full biography
Born and raised in Alabama, Frederick Bridgman became known for his Oriental motif paintings of North Africa, inspired by his teacher Jean-Leon Gerome. However, later in his career he diverged to genre and landscape subjects. As a young man, he moved to New York and worked as an engraver and... Read full biography
Born and raised in Alabama, Frederick Bridgman became known for his Oriental motif paintings of North Africa, inspired by his teacher Jean-Leon Gerome. However, later in his career he diverged to genre and landscape subjects. As a young man, he moved to New York and worked as an engraver and studied at the National Academy of Design where he enrolled in 1863. Three years later, he began a life-long residency in Paris where he became one of the leading and earliest members of the Pont-Avon... Read full biography
Born and raised in Alabama, Frederick Bridgman became known for his Oriental motif paintings of North Africa, inspired by his teacher Jean-Leon Gerome. However, later in his career he diverged to genre and landscape subjects. As a young man, he moved to New York and worked as an engraver and studied at the National Academy of Design where he enrolled in 1863. Three years later, he began a life-long residency in Paris where he became one of the leading and earliest members of the Pont-Avon artists colony in Brittany. Bridgman studied from 1867 to 1871 with Gerome who encouraged his students to paint exotic historical subjects. In 1872, he made the first of many trips to Spain and North Africa. He specialized in Orientalist and... Read full biography
Born and raised in Alabama, Frederick Bridgman became known for his Oriental motif paintings of North Africa, inspired by his teacher Jean-Leon Gerome. However, later in his career he diverged to genre and landscape subjects. As a young man, he moved to New York and worked as an engraver and studied at the National Academy of Design where he enrolled in 1863. Three years later, he began a life-long residency in Paris where he became one of the leading and earliest members of the Pont-Avon artists colony in Brittany. Bridgman studied from 1867 to 1871 with Gerome who encouraged his students to paint exotic historical subjects. In 1872, he made the first of many trips to Spain and North Africa. He specialized in Orientalist and archaeological subjects, and his detailed, brilliantly colored, exotic scenes, especially of Algeria and Egypt, brought... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (52)
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A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 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
Intimate Landscapes: Charles Warren Eaton and the Tonalist Movement in American Art, 1880-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Cleveland, David Adams
114 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)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline
2004
Vose, Marcia (editor)
38 pages (color)
Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Leeds, Valerie (Essay)
88 pages (color)
Americans in Paris, 1850-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Oklahoma City Museum
128 pages (color)
Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection
2003
Richter, Marianne; Wendy Greenhouse (Essays)
308 pages (color)
Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Spanierman Gallery
0 pages
American Paintings: 1860-1940
2000
Greer, Gina; Andrea Smith
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 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
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 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)
Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters
1990
Halsby, Julian
223 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerdts, Abigail Booth
208 pages (color)
Adventure and Inspiration American Artists in Other Lands (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Ward, Meredith (essay)
172 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
The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gerome
1984
Weinberg, H Barbara
113 pages
The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Detroit Institute of the Arts
272 pages (color)
Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Sellin, David / J K Ballinger
229 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Richards, Jane L
66 pages (color)
Recent Ideals of Americn Art
1977
Sheldon, George William
176 pages
Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11)
1977
Weinberg, H Barbara (intro)
240 pages
American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Quick, Michael
158 pages (color)
Artists and Models
1975
Archives of American Art
40 pages
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
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
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 History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)