Born in Philadelphia, Joseph Jefferson grew up in the theater. Joseph Jefferson IV came from a family of actor-painters. His father and grandfather, Joseph Jefferson II and III were both... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, Joseph Jefferson grew up in the theater. Joseph Jefferson IV came from a family of actor-painters. His father and grandfather, Joseph Jefferson II and III were both actor-painters, however Joseph Jefferson IV was the most well-known. He started at the young age of four (1833)... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, Joseph Jefferson grew up in the theater. Joseph Jefferson IV came from a family of actor-painters. His father and grandfather, Joseph Jefferson II and III were both actor-painters, however Joseph Jefferson IV was the most well-known. He started at the young age of four (1833) when he appeared in a play in Washington, D.C. He continued to act for over seventy years and was best remembered for his role as Rip van Winkle. Although he was best known as an actor, acclaimed for... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, Joseph Jefferson grew up in the theater. Joseph Jefferson IV came from a family of actor-painters. His father and grandfather, Joseph Jefferson II and III were both actor-painters, however Joseph Jefferson IV was the most well-known. He started at the young age of four (1833) when he appeared in a play in Washington, D.C. He continued to act for over seventy years and was best remembered for his role as Rip van Winkle. Although he was best known as an actor, acclaimed for such roles as the main character in Dion Boucicault's Rip Van Winkle, Jefferson was an avid painter in his spare time. Jefferson exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1868 and the National Academy of Design in 1890. In... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, Joseph Jefferson grew up in the theater. Joseph Jefferson IV came from a family of actor-painters. His father and grandfather, Joseph Jefferson II and III were both actor-painters, however Joseph Jefferson IV was the most well-known. He started at the young age of four (1833) when he appeared in a play in Washington, D.C. He continued to act for over seventy years and was best remembered for his role as Rip van Winkle. Although he was best known as an actor, acclaimed for such roles as the main character in Dion Boucicault's Rip Van Winkle, Jefferson was an avid painter in his spare time. Jefferson exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1868 and the National Academy of Design in 1890. In 1899 he had a solo exhibition in Washington, D.C. A collector of the work of the Barbizon... Read full biography
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About Joseph Jefferson IV: Books
Books & Publications (23)
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Nicholas R. Brewer: His Art and Family
2018
L'Enfant, Julie
400 pages (color)
Palm Beach Visual Arts
2016
Pollack, Deborah C.
200 pages (color)
Life and Art of Joseph Jefferson: Together with Some Account of His Ancestry of the Jefferson Family of Actors
2010
Winter, William
384 pages (color)
The Jeffersons
2010
Winter, William
128 pages (color)
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
Celebrating Florida Works of Art from the Vickers Collection
1995
Libby, Gary R (editor)
144 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Capital Image Painters in Washington 1800-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cosentino, Andrew; Henry H. Glassie
280 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
American Art in the Barbizon Mood (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bermingham, Peter
191 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index