Born in Buffalo, New York, James Beard was a self-taught artist known for children's portraits, often posed with domestic pets. His satirical anthropomorphic animal subjects and other humorous topics... Read full biography
Born in Buffalo, New York, James Beard was a self-taught artist known for children's portraits, often posed with domestic pets. His satirical anthropomorphic animal subjects and other humorous topics were much in contrast to prevalent sentimentality. He was an honorary member of the National... Read full biography
Born in Buffalo, New York, James Beard was a self-taught artist known for children's portraits, often posed with domestic pets. His satirical anthropomorphic animal subjects and other humorous topics were much in contrast to prevalent sentimentality. He was an honorary member of the National Academy of Design* from 1848 to 1860 and a full member until his death. His birth date has been disputed with the years 1811, 1814 and 1815 given, but 1811 is the date in his family's Bible. At age 11, he... Read full biography
Born in Buffalo, New York, James Beard was a self-taught artist known for children's portraits, often posed with domestic pets. His satirical anthropomorphic animal subjects and other humorous topics were much in contrast to prevalent sentimentality. He was an honorary member of the National Academy of Design* from 1848 to 1860 and a full member until his death. His birth date has been disputed with the years 1811, 1814 and 1815 given, but 1811 is the date in his family's Bible. At age 11, he moved with his family to Painesville, Ohio, where he was raised and where his artist brother, William Holbrook, was born. For some years, he was an itinerant* portrait painter, traveling to Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, New Orleans and Louisville. From 1834... Read full biography
Born in Buffalo, New York, James Beard was a self-taught artist known for children's portraits, often posed with domestic pets. His satirical anthropomorphic animal subjects and other humorous topics were much in contrast to prevalent sentimentality. He was an honorary member of the National Academy of Design* from 1848 to 1860 and a full member until his death. His birth date has been disputed with the years 1811, 1814 and 1815 given, but 1811 is the date in his family's Bible. At age 11, he moved with his family to Painesville, Ohio, where he was raised and where his artist brother, William Holbrook, was born. For some years, he was an itinerant* portrait painter, traveling to Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, New Orleans and Louisville. From 1834 to 1870, Beard lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, but spent his winters in New Orleans, and was in N... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (49)
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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)
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 pages (color)
An American Palette: Works from Collection of John/Dolores Beck
2000
Florida Museum of Fine Arts
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory The Civil War in Art
1993
Holzer, Harold/Mark E Neely Jr
336 pages (color)
Emergence of the African-American Artist/Robert S Duncanson 1821-1872
1993
Ketner, Joseph D
233 pages (color)
A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Columbus Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Truettner, William H
386 pages (color)
Masterpieces of American Painting
1991
Wilson, John
34 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 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)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University)
1981
Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor)
106 pages
Animals in American Art 1880's-1980's (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nassau County Museum
64 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Rogers, Millard F Jr.; Denny Carter, Bruce Weber
218 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer
189 pages
Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977
Miles, Ellen G (editor)
176 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
Revealed Masters 19th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Gerdts, William H
152 pages (color)
The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hills, Patricia
160 pages (color)
American Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure
192 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Faces and Places Changing Images of 19th Century America (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
The American Scene A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
74 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 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
Portrait of the Old West
1952
McCracken, Harold
216 pages (color)
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission) (Exhibition catalog)
1950
U S National Capital S C
270 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
American Painters With Eighty-three Engraved Examples of Their Work