The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing... Read full biography
The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing realism of his portraits of wealthy Bostonian merchants and landed gentry in the years before the... Read full biography
The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing realism of his portraits of wealthy Bostonian merchants and landed gentry in the years before the American revolution has secured him a lasting fame, a fact which would no doubt have surprised the artist, who had complained that 'fame cannot be durable where pictures are confined to sitting rooms, and... Read full biography
The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing realism of his portraits of wealthy Bostonian merchants and landed gentry in the years before the American revolution has secured him a lasting fame, a fact which would no doubt have surprised the artist, who had complained that 'fame cannot be durable where pictures are confined to sitting rooms, and regarded only for the resemblance they bear to their originals'. His attention to the minutiae of patterned lace, his polished wood and metal surfaces, brilliant fabrics and lustrous pearls, all rendered with a jeweler's precision, made him hugely... Read full biography
The crowds who visited the Copley exhibition in Washington and Houston in 1996 were a testimony to the enduring regard in which this artist is still held in his native land. The utterly convincing realism of his portraits of wealthy Bostonian merchants and landed gentry in the years before the American revolution has secured him a lasting fame, a fact which would no doubt have surprised the artist, who had complained that 'fame cannot be durable where pictures are confined to sitting rooms, and regarded only for the resemblance they bear to their originals'. His attention to the minutiae of patterned lace, his polished wood and metal surfaces, brilliant fabrics and lustrous pearls, all rendered with a jeweler's precision, made him hugely successful at the time and still remains a tangible symbol of the young colony's materialism and self respect. But Copl... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (303)
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Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art
2016
Rudd, Brandon and Gregory Nosan, Editors; Wally Mason, Director's Mewssage
312 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors A Compendium of Favorite Articles from the First Twelve Issues
2006
The Vose Family
65 pages (color)
Still Looking: Essays on American Art
2006
Updike, John
240 pages (color)
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
American Artists Abroad and Their Inspiration: Selections from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
2004
64 pages (color)
Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, US Department of State (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Fairbanks and Serfaty
232 pages (color)
An Endless Panorama of Beauty: Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Palmer Museum of Art
142 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays
194 pages (color)
Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
2000
Frank, Robin Jaffee
0 pages
Boston Art Club: 1855-1950
2000
Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn
88 pages (color)
The Gilded Edge
2000
Wilner, Eli et al
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art
1995
Adams, H. and Johnson, K.
192 pages (color)
Redefining American History Paintng
1995
Burnham, Patricia/L H Giese
409 pages
Masterpieces Best Loved Paintings from America's Museums
1995
Frankel, David
162 pages (color)
History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day
1995
Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson
960 pages (color)
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Miles, Ellen G
419 pages
John Singleton Copley in America
1995
Rebora, C. and Staiti, P.
348 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
American Icons
1992
Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor)
390 pages
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stebbins, Theodore E
470 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1)
1991
Detroit Institute of the Arts
340 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Charles Willson Peale New Perspectives/250th Anniversary Celebration
1991
Miller, Lillian B/David C Ward
317 pages
Philbrook Museum of Art Handbook to the Collections
1991
Philbrook Museum of Art
250 pages (color)
America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
112 pages
American Views Essays on American Art
1991
Wilmerding, John
357 pages (color)
Masterpieces of American Painting
1991
Wilson, John
34 pages (color)
The Art of Exclusion Representing Blacks in the 19th Century
1990
Boime, Albert
256 pages
American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum
1990
Eldredge, Charles C
135 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Counterpoint Two Centuries of American Masters (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
112 pages (color)
Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
McElroy, Guy C
190 pages (color)
Faces and Figures in American Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Bloch, E Maurice
99 pages
American Pastels In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1989
Bolger, Doreen (others)
247 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Painting: Montclair Art Museum Collection
1989
Kushner, Marilyn; Alejandro Anreus, et all
200 pages (color)
Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
1989
La Cour, Donna Ward
196 pages
A Permanent Legacy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (150 Works)
1989
Marzio, Peter C (intro)
366 pages (color)
The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran
1989
Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville)
254 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors From the Huntington Collections
1988
Danly, Susan
42 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts
1988
Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor)
328 pages (color)
Grand Illusions History Painting in America
1988
Gerdts, William & Thistlewaite
174 pages
Selected Works Minneapolis Institute of Arts
1988
Lipshultz, Sandra LaWall
269 pages (color)
New World Visions of Household Gods and Sacred Places American Art, 1650-1914
1988
Scully, Vincent
183 pages (color)
Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art
1988
Vlach, John Michael
206 pages (color)
Adventure and Inspiration American Artists in Other Lands (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Ward, Meredith (essay)
172 pages (color)
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago
1988
Wood, James N/Katherine Lee
168 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum
1987
Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro)
94 pages (color)
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ Selected Works
1987
Fine Arts Museum S Francisco
173 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
The Figure in American Art 1764-1983 Three Simultaneous Exhibitions: Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Baur, John I.H.
72 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Art
1986
Munson Williams-Proctor Inst
101 pages (color)
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1986
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
148 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection
1986
Novak, Barbara
326 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
1986
Richardson, Edgar P
157 pages (color)
Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1986
Salinger, Margaretta
200 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Adams, Henry
120 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
The Art of Collecting (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
65 pages (color)
100 Years of Collecting in America The Story of Sotheby Park Bernet
1984
Norton, Thomas E
240 pages (color)
The Great Boston Collectors Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts
1984
Troyen, Carol/Pamela Tabbaa
151 pages (color)
National Gallery of Art, Washington New and Revised Edition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Walker, John
606 pages (color)
California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of
1984
Wilson, William
288 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
1983
Brown, Milton W
240 pages (color)
The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History
1983
Davidson, Marshall
256 pages (color)
The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Faison, S Lane
1,983 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
America Abandoned John Singleton Copley's American Years
1983
Klayman, Richard
125 pages
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays)
351 pages (color)
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
The Art Museums of New England
1982
Faison, S Lane Jr
490 pages
American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
100 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
National Gallery of Art: Washington
1982
Walker, John and J. Carter Brown
160 pages (color)
Romantic Re-Vision Culture and Consciousness in 19th-Century Painting
1982
Wolf, Bryan Jay
272 pages
Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries
1981
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
163 pages
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors
1981
Kennedy Galleries
81 pages (color)
Art of America Selected Painting and Sculpture, 1770-1981
1981
Kennedy Galleries
64 pages (color)
The Preston Morton Collection of American Art (Santa Barbara Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Mead, Katherine Harper (Editor)
272 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts
228 pages (color)
Larousse Dictionary of Painters (Americans included in world listing)
1981
Smith, Alistair (intro)
467 pages (color)
A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art
1981
Williams, William James
256 pages (color)
An American Perspective: Nineteenth Century Art From the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Wilmerding, John; Linda Ayres, Earl Powell
180 pages (color)
American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980
1980
Galleries, Hirschl and Adler
112 pages (color)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1980
Hibbard, Howard
592 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980
Troyen, Carol
204 pages (color)
American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
American Drawings: Paul Magriel Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eisler, Colin
38 pages
An American Bestiary
1979
Haverstock, Mary Sayre
248 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Paintings The Landon Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Mint Museum
83 pages (color)
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum
1979
Teitz, Richard Stuart
118 pages
Why Art? A Guide to Viewing Contemporary American Art
1978
Daniels, Florence
222 pages
The Lure of the Great West
1978
Getlein, Frank
352 pages (color)
The American View Art from 1770 to 1978 (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Kennedy Galleries
108 pages (color)
Art About Art
1978
Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall
176 pages (color)
Spencer Museum of Art Handbook of the Collection
1978
Spencer Museum of Art
168 pages (color)
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 pages (color)
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)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Age of the Revolution and Early Republic in Fine and Decorative Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Kennedy Galleries/Israel Sack
120 pages
Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977
Miles, Ellen G (editor)
176 pages (color)
Nineteenth-Century Painters and Painting/A Dictionary
1977
Norman, Geraldine
240 pages (color)
American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show
1977
Prown, Jules David; John Walker (Intro)
133 pages (color)
American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present
1977
Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose
277 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
American Portraits by John S Copley (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
60 pages (color)
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
American Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Montgomery, Charles/Pat Kane
320 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 Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University
1976
Ross, Barbara T
132 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
200 Jahre Amerikanische Malerei 1776-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
140 pages (color)
A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan
1976
Tracy, Berry and Howat, John
82 pages (color)
The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections
1975
Buckley, Charles E
377 pages (color)
American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue
1975
Chambers, Bruce W
127 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
The Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 pages (color)
First Flowers of Our Wilderness (University of Arizona Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Steadman, William E
143 pages (color)
Seascape and the American Imagination (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Stein, Roger B
144 pages (color)
The Story of American Painting
1974
Davidson, Abraham A
168 pages (color)
American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote (Exhibition catalog)
1974
E B Crocker Art Gallery
28 pages (color)
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
American Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure
192 pages (color)
The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art
1974
Parry, Ellwood
189 pages
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
From Reliable Sources, Archives of American Art An Exhibition of Letters from the Smithsonian Instituteion (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Woolfenden, William E. (Foreward); Garmett McCoy (Intro)
56 pages
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Made in America, Printmaking 1760-1860 An Exhibition of Original Prints from Collections of The Library Company, Philadelphia (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Editor, Library Company of Philadelpia
110 pages
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Paintings/Midwestern University Collections Seventeenth-Twentieth Centuries
1973
Tomasini, Wallace (others)
179 pages (color)
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
The Hand and Spirit Religious Art in America 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dillenberger, Jane/J C Taylor
192 pages (color)
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
Politics in Art
1972
Mondale, Joan Adams
72 pages (color)
Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery
1972
Neilson, Katharine B
343 pages (color)
Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum
1972
Tomko, George
237 pages (color)
American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Wunderlich, Rudolf G; Lawrence A. Fleischman
64 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1971
Baigell, Mathew
288 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
What Is American in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black
80 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor
1971
Graham, F Lanier
111 pages (color)
American Masters 18th to 20th Centuries (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Kennedy Galleries
48 pages
American Painting to 1776 A Reappraisal
1971
Quimby, Ian M G (editor)
381 pages
Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons
1970
Bolton, Theodore
111 pages
Letters and Papers (of) John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham
1970
Copley, John Singleton et al
384 pages
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
The World of Copley 1738-1815
1970
Frankenstein, Alfred
192 pages (color)
Forty Masterworks of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
57 pages (color)
The History of the Brooklyn Art Association with Index of Exhibitions (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Marlor, Clark S
0 pages
Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Maytham, Thomas N
160 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show
1970
Prown, Jules/John Walker
145 pages (color)
American Ship Portraits & Marine Painting: Everson Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Sullivan, Max (Foreward); Philip Chadwick Foster Smith
64 pages (color)
Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings
1970
Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor)
166 pages
The Domestic and Artistic Life John Singleton Copley (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Amory, Martha Babcock
478 pages
Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums
1969
Brockton Art Center
48 pages
The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes
1969
Canaday, John
1,520 pages (color)
History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies
1969
Flexner, James Thomas
307 pages
The Double Adventure of John Singleton Copley
1969
Flexner, James Thomas
169 pages
Art In America From Colonial Days Through the Nineteenth Century
1969
Myron, Robert/Abner Sundell
186 pages
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century
1969
Novak, Barbara
350 pages (color)
The American Sense of Reality (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Philbrook Art Center
56 pages
John Singleton Copley America's First Great Artist
1969
Plate, Robert
154 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans
1969
Stewart, Robert G
93 pages
Boston Painters 1720-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Boston University
70 pages
Twenty-Five American Masterpieces (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
32 pages (color)
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
This New Man A Discourse in Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Townsend, Benjamin (others)
217 pages (color)
American Marine Painting (2nd Edition)
1968
Wilmerding, John
204 pages (color)
History of American Marine Painting
1968
Wilmerding, John
179 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
America's Old Masters
1967
Flexner, James Thomas
365 pages
American Paintings for Public and Private Collections
1967
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
52 pages (color)
The Adams Papers Portraits of John and Abigail Adams
1967
Oliver, Andrew
284 pages
Copley: A Biography
1967
Ripley, Elizabeth
72 pages
History of Water Color in America
1966
Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck
160 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Paintings by American Masters Fifth Anniversary Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Kalamazoo Art Center
18 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
Sixty Paintings Brooks Memorial Art Gallery
1966
McNight, Robert J
70 pages
200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Metropolitan Museum of Art
64 pages
American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966
North Carolina Museum of Art
118 pages (color)
John Singleton Copley 2 Vols (America, England)
1966
Prown, Jules David
700 pages
Colonial and Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College
1966
Sadik, Marvin S
222 pages (color)
The Arts in America Colonial Period
1966
Wright, Louis (others)
368 pages
Limners and Likenesses
1965
Burroughs, Alan
246 pages
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
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284 pages
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1965
Harithas, James
225 pages (color)
American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters
1965
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
141 pages (color)
The American Collection Representative Paintings/Phoenix Art Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Museum of Northern Arizona
16 pages
John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Prown, Jules David
142 pages (color)
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
The Birth of the American Tradition in Art
1964
Hagen, Oskar
159 pages
Four Centuries of American Masterpieces (Exhibition: The Gallery at the Better Living Center, May22-October 18, 1964) (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Hoopes, Donelson F (Introduction); August Heckscher, (Foreward)
64 pages (color)
American Art From American Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Biddle, James
114 pages
Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953
1963
Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all
178 pages (color)
What Is American in American Art
1963
Lipman, Jean (editor)
180 pages (color)
American Tradition in Painting
1963
McCoubrey, John W
128 pages
Four Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Minneapolis Institute of Art
68 pages
A Short History of Painting in America
1963
Richardson, Edgar P
347 pages (color)
National Gallery of Art, Washington
1963
Walker, John
347 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
American Muse, The
1961
Dorra, Henri
163 pages (color)
American Realists (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Hamilton (Canada) Art Gallery
80 pages
American Painters in Paris
1960
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177 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
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1957
Parker, Barbara Neville
124 pages (color)
200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art
1955
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93 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
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511 pages (color)
American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection
1953
Brooklyn, Museum
48 pages
Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area (Exhibition catalog)
1952
Corcoran Gallery of Art
64 pages
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
From Colony to Nation (Exhibition US works to War of 1812) (Exhibition catalog)
1949
Art Institute of Chicago
140 pages
John Singleton Copley
1948
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139 pages
History of American Painting: First Flowers of Our Wilderness: The Colonial Period (Volume One)
1947
Flexner, James Thomas
368 pages (color)
Treasury of American Drawings
1947
Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman
176 pages
Romantic Painting in America (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller
144 pages
Great American Paintings from Smibert to Bellows, 1729-1924 (National Gallery of Art)
1943
Walker, John; James MacGill
112 pages (color)
Painting Today and Yesterday in The United States Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1941
Bear, Donald Jeffries; Janet H. Lineberger (Essay)
120 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
The American Artist and His Times
1941
Saint-Gaudens, Homer
332 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
230 pages
The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America
1937
Caffin, Charles H
396 pages
The Main Currents in the Development of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
80 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
One Hundred Colonial Portraits Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1930
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
110 pages
Art in America
1929
La Follette, Suzanne
361 pages
Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
1927
Fairman, Charles E
0 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)
1927
Isham, Samuel
608 pages
Famous Painters of America
1923
McSpadden, J Walker
418 pages
American Pictures & their Painters
1921
Bryant, Lorinda Munson
307 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)
1918
Dunlap, William
418 pages
One Hundred Early American Paintings
1918
Ehrich Galleries
176 pages
American Art A Study Outline
1917
Guthrie, Anna Lorraine
63 pages
The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70