Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection (Vancouver Art Gallery)
2012Thom, Ian M.
160 pages (color)
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1752 London, England - 1793 London, England. Known for: Cook Voyage sketches 1778, expedition artist.
John Webber was an expedition artist noted for his images of early Alaska and Hawaii, which he created while serving as official artist on Captain James Cook's exploration of the Northwest and the... Read full biography
John Webber was an expedition artist noted for his images of early Alaska and Hawaii, which he created while serving as official artist on Captain James Cook's exploration of the Northwest and the Pacific. On this voyage where Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first... Read full biography
John Webber was an expedition artist noted for his images of early Alaska and Hawaii, which he created while serving as official artist on Captain James Cook's exploration of the Northwest and the Pacific. On this voyage where Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He did numerous watercolor landscape sketches of Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii and also showed many of the Hawaiian people... Read full biography
John Webber was an expedition artist noted for his images of early Alaska and Hawaii, which he created while serving as official artist on Captain James Cook's exploration of the Northwest and the Pacific. On this voyage where Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He did numerous watercolor landscape sketches of Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii and also showed many of the Hawaiian people and their activities. Born in London to an emigrant Swiss sculptor, Webber was sent to study art from 1767-1770 under J.L. Aberli in Bern, Switzerland. After further training in Paris, he returned to London, where one of his paintings in the annual... Read full biography
John Webber was an expedition artist noted for his images of early Alaska and Hawaii, which he created while serving as official artist on Captain James Cook's exploration of the Northwest and the Pacific. On this voyage where Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He did numerous watercolor landscape sketches of Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii and also showed many of the Hawaiian people and their activities. Born in London to an emigrant Swiss sculptor, Webber was sent to study art from 1767-1770 under J.L. Aberli in Bern, Switzerland. After further training in Paris, he returned to London, where one of his paintings in the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy impressed the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander. Solander had accompanied Cook on the captain's two previo... Read full biography
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Convergence/Divergence: Landscape and Identity on the West Coast
2011
(Exhibition catalog)Riedel, Caroline28 pages (color)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 pagesEyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States
1997Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley400 pages (color)The Painted Voyage Art, Travel and Exploration 1564-1875
1995Jacobs, Michael156 pages (color)Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress
1994Tyler, Ron197 pages (color)Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum
1993Woodward, Kesler E160 pages (color)Encounters with Paradise Views of Hawaii and Its People 1778-1941
1992Forbes, David285 pages (color)Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images
1989Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan304 pages (color)The Artist as Reporter
1986Hogarth, Paul192 pagesArtists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesEarly Maritime Artists Pacific Northwest Coast 1741-1841
1984Henry, John Frazier240 pages (color)America the Picturesque In Nineteenth Century Engraving
1983Moritz, Albert F167 pagesAmerican Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff213 pagesFrom Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions-The British Columbia Landscape
1977Tippett, Maria/Douglas Cole159 pages (color)The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesArtists of Hawaii Nineteen Painters & Sculptors
1974Haar, Francis; Prithwish Neogy150 pages (color)Painters in a New Land From Annapolis Royal to the Klondike
1973Bell, Michael224 pages (color)The American Frontier Images and Myths
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Hills, Patricia64 pagesThe Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum
1968Brewington, M V and Dorothy530 pages (color)American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission)
1950
(Exhibition catalog)U S National Capital S C270 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages