Born in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Jefferson Chalfant earned a distinguished reputation for portraits and for technical skill with "trompe l'oeil" [fool the eye] still lifes.... Read full biography
Born in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Jefferson Chalfant earned a distinguished reputation for portraits and for technical skill with "trompe l'oeil" [fool the eye] still lifes. His paintings were usually illuminated with glowing light, achieved by the subtle gradation of colors.... Read full biography
Born in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Jefferson Chalfant earned a distinguished reputation for portraits and for technical skill with "trompe l'oeil" [fool the eye] still lifes. His paintings were usually illuminated with glowing light, achieved by the subtle gradation of colors. He devoted the last thirty years of his life to portraits, and most of them are in private homes in Wilmington. A part of the tradition from William Harnett, Chalfant's still-life paintings often... Read full biography
Born in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Jefferson Chalfant earned a distinguished reputation for portraits and for technical skill with "trompe l'oeil" [fool the eye] still lifes. His paintings were usually illuminated with glowing light, achieved by the subtle gradation of colors. He devoted the last thirty years of his life to portraits, and most of them are in private homes in Wilmington. A part of the tradition from William Harnett, Chalfant's still-life paintings often have old books in disarray and snuffed candles signifying the absence and temporary aspects of human life. In fact, it has been written that "his still lifes, in almost every instance, can be traced to a prototype by Harnett. His reliance on the older... Read full biography
Born in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Jefferson Chalfant earned a distinguished reputation for portraits and for technical skill with "trompe l'oeil" [fool the eye] still lifes. His paintings were usually illuminated with glowing light, achieved by the subtle gradation of colors. He devoted the last thirty years of his life to portraits, and most of them are in private homes in Wilmington. A part of the tradition from William Harnett, Chalfant's still-life paintings often have old books in disarray and snuffed candles signifying the absence and temporary aspects of human life. In fact, it has been written that "his still lifes, in almost every instance, can be traced to a prototype by Harnett. His reliance on the older artist, however, does not detract from Chalfant's exquisite craftsmanship" (The Reality of Appearance by Alfred Frankenstein). Chalfant l... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (42)
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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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Schwarz, Robert Devlin
130 pages (color)
American Painting Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Editors
56 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 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
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran
1989
Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville)
254 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
David Brega Trompe l'oeil: The Provacative Language of Illusion (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Preato, Robert R
50 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
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Jefferson David Chalfant (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Gorman, Joan H
48 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Richardson, Edgar P
247 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum
1975
Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay)
182 pages (color)
The Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 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)
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
The Reality of Appearance: Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Frankenstein, Alfred
156 pages (color)
After the Hunt: W Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters
1969
Frankenstein, Alfred
202 pages
American Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, Part Two The Nineteenth Century:1825-1890, Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Wunderlich, Rudolf (Introduction),
76 pages
American Paintings for Public and Private Collections
1967
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
52 pages (color)
After the Hunt: William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters
1953
Frankenstein, Alfred
189 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index