Palm Beach Visual Arts
2016Pollack, Deborah C.
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1855 West Chester, Pennsylvania - 1929 West Chester, Pennsylvania. Known for: Trompe still life and landscape painting.
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania,... Read full biography
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania, although in the 1870s he traveled for four years to the Far West including the Pacific Coast and the... Read full biography
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania, although in the 1870s he traveled for four years to the Far West including the Pacific Coast and the Plains. Titles of his work included A Spur of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Falls of the Turnchuck River, Washington Territory. He was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. Cope began his formal training... Read full biography
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania, although in the 1870s he traveled for four years to the Far West including the Pacific Coast and the Plains. Titles of his work included A Spur of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Falls of the Turnchuck River, Washington Territory. He was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. Cope began his formal training in 1876 with German landscape painter Herman Herzog, but in 1887 switched to "trompe l'oeil" still lifes as his primary subject when he saw the success with this style of other artists such as William Harnett. This subject matter was new to the... Read full biography
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania, although in the 1870s he traveled for four years to the Far West including the Pacific Coast and the Plains. Titles of his work included A Spur of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Falls of the Turnchuck River, Washington Territory. He was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. Cope began his formal training in 1876 with German landscape painter Herman Herzog, but in 1887 switched to "trompe l'oeil" still lifes as his primary subject when he saw the success with this style of other artists such as William Harnett. This subject matter was new to the United States and was introduced in the mid 19th century by German emigre artists who had been much influenced by th... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pages150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting
1997
(Exhibition catalog)Schwarz, Robert Devlin130 pages (color)American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin877 pages (color)Celebrating Florida Works of Art from the Vickers Collection
1995Libby, Gary R (editor)144 pages (color)Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts372 pages (color)Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)Florida Visionaries: 1870-1930
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Florida Arts Celebration80 pages (color)American Painting
1989Schwarz-Philadelphia64 pages (color)A Century of Philadelphia Artists Frank S. Schwarz & Son
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Hall, Audrey64 pages (color)David Brega Trompe l'oeil: The Provacative Language of Illusion
1986
(Exhibition catalog)Preato, Robert R50 pages300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesAmerican Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45
1985Spasky, Natalie671 pages25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Adams, Henry120 pagesPainters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981Gerdts, William H292 pages (color)The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981Rugoff, Milton669 pages (color)Dictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesGeorge Cope 1855-1929
1978
(Exhibition catalog)Gorman, Joan/Gertrude G Sill75 pages (color)American Still Life Painting
1971Gerdts, William; Russell Burke264 pages (color)The Reality of Appearance: Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Painting
1970
(Exhibition catalog)Frankenstein, Alfred156 pages (color)After the Hunt: W Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters
1969Frankenstein, Alfred202 pagesAmerican Paintings for Public and Private Collections
1967Hirschl & Adler Galleries52 pages (color)After the Hunt: William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters
1953Frankenstein, Alfred189 pagesStill-Life Painting in America
1947Born, Wolfgang144 pages