Born in New York City, eight years after Robert Fulton sent the first steamboat up the Hudson River, James Bard saw and reflected in his marine paintings the industrial development of shipping in... Read full biography
Born in New York City, eight years after Robert Fulton sent the first steamboat up the Hudson River, James Bard saw and reflected in his marine paintings the industrial development of shipping in America. He and his twin brother John Bard together painted more than 350 marine portraits, steamships... Read full biography
Born in New York City, eight years after Robert Fulton sent the first steamboat up the Hudson River, James Bard saw and reflected in his marine paintings the industrial development of shipping in America. He and his twin brother John Bard together painted more than 350 marine portraits, steamships and sailboats in the New York Harbor and on the Hudson River. Likely James did the outline sketches, and John filled in the color and backgrounds. However, James quit working with John after 1849, and... Read full biography
Born in New York City, eight years after Robert Fulton sent the first steamboat up the Hudson River, James Bard saw and reflected in his marine paintings the industrial development of shipping in America. He and his twin brother John Bard together painted more than 350 marine portraits, steamships and sailboats in the New York Harbor and on the Hudson River. Likely James did the outline sketches, and John filled in the color and backgrounds. However, James quit working with John after 1849, and John died seven years later, but James kept painting, doing nearly 4000 works during his lifetime and leaving a record of nearly every steamship on the Hudson River during the second half of the 19th century. He worked until the year of his death... Read full biography
Born in New York City, eight years after Robert Fulton sent the first steamboat up the Hudson River, James Bard saw and reflected in his marine paintings the industrial development of shipping in America. He and his twin brother John Bard together painted more than 350 marine portraits, steamships and sailboats in the New York Harbor and on the Hudson River. Likely James did the outline sketches, and John filled in the color and backgrounds. However, James quit working with John after 1849, and John died seven years later, but James kept painting, doing nearly 4000 works during his lifetime and leaving a record of nearly every steamship on the Hudson River during the second half of the 19th century. He worked until the year of his death and died in White Plains, New York. Although the paintings are rather primitive in their flat colors and perspect... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (47)
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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
Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum)
2005
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell
573 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Vose Art Notes Tenth Anniversary Issue Art and Collecting in America: An Illustrated Timeline
2002
Vose, Marcia L. (editor)
37 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876
1997
Lipman, Jean; Alice Winchester
288 pages (color)
The Bard Brothers Painting America Under Steam and Sail
1997
Peluso, Anthony J
175 pages (color)
The Bard Brothers: Painting America Under Steam and Sail (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Peluso, Anthony J Jr.
0 pages
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
American Naive Paintings (National Gallery Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Chotner, Deborah
668 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography
1991
Sullivan, Mark W
225 pages
American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits
1988
Rumford, Beatrix
449 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 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
Brooklyn Before the Bridge: American Paintings from the Long Island Historical Society
1982
Bastedo, Russell (Introduction); John A. Kouwenhoven, (Essay)
137 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Dictionary of Sea Painters
1980
Archibald, E H H
455 pages (color)
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980
Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong
233 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Realism
1978
Mathey, Francois
192 pages
American Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Woodward, Richard B
110 pages (color)
Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Tillou, Peter
114 pages (color)
American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Virginia Museum
151 pages (color)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 pages (color)
Seascape and the American Imagination (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Stein, Roger B
144 pages (color)
American Paintings (in) The Rhode Island Historical Society
1974
Goodyear, Frank H
116 pages (color)
The Hudson River and Its Painters
1972
Howat, John K; James Biddle (Preface); Carl Carmer (Foreward)
207 pages (color)
Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
American Ship Portraits & Marine Painting: Everson Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Sullivan, Max (Foreward); Philip Chadwick Foster Smith
64 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum
1968
Brewington, M V and Dorothy
530 pages (color)
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
American Marine Painting (2nd Edition)
1968
Wilmerding, John
204 pages (color)
History of American Marine Painting
1968
Wilmerding, John
179 pages (color)
American Folk Painting
1966
Black, Mary/Jean Lipman
244 pages (color)
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Art in New York State New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Kuh, Katherine
126 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860