Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the... Read full biography
Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the context of contemporary American art. He had his work accepted by the National Academy of Design in... Read full biography
Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the context of contemporary American art. He had his work accepted by the National Academy of Design in 1887 and 1888. He seemed destined for glittering success. This official recognition, apparently so promising, had to sustain him for the remainder of his active career. His subsequent entries were... Read full biography
Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the context of contemporary American art. He had his work accepted by the National Academy of Design in 1887 and 1888. He seemed destined for glittering success. This official recognition, apparently so promising, had to sustain him for the remainder of his active career. His subsequent entries were rejected, and he continued to work for three decades without further encouragement. The involuntary isolation ultimately destroyed him. What queered his career was a strain of fantasy; he introduced into his atmospheric pictures incidents of a naive... Read full biography
Louis Eilshemius was born to wealthy and socially prominent immigrant parents near Newark, New Jersey. His earliest paintings, reflecting the influence of Corot and Inness, placed him well within the context of contemporary American art. He had his work accepted by the National Academy of Design in 1887 and 1888. He seemed destined for glittering success. This official recognition, apparently so promising, had to sustain him for the remainder of his active career. His subsequent entries were rejected, and he continued to work for three decades without further encouragement. The involuntary isolation ultimately destroyed him. What queered his career was a strain of fantasy; he introduced into his atmospheric pictures incidents of a naive sort - lubricious, melodramatic, somewhat wooden. People laughed at them and eventually,... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (130)
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A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork
2008
Fleming, Geoffrey K. and Sara Evans (Southold Historical Society)
250 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
The Marshall Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Love, Richard H; William H. Marshall
108 pages (color)
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
New York Dada 1915-23
1994
Naumann, Francis M
255 pages (color)
Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes)
1993
Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor
622 pages
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
The Salons of America (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Marlor, Clark S
242 pages
The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art
1991
Rosenblum, Robert (intro)
174 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture Sterling & Francine Clark Institute
1990
Conrads, Martha C
219 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
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Schall, Ellen (others)
164 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, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)
140 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection
1987
Strickler, Susan (editor)
232 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Deeds, Daphne Anderson
64 pages
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Sims, Lowery Stokes
167 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Owens, Gwendolyn
111 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University)
1981
Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor)
106 pages
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)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Ballinger, James K
206 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
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 Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
American Drawings: Paul Magriel Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eisler, Colin
38 pages
American Imagination and Symbolist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eldredge, Charles C
176 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930
1979
Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan
96 pages (color)
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters
1978
Davidson, Abraham A
203 pages (color)
Louis Michel Eilshemius
1978
Karlstrom, Paul
263 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 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)
Collection of American Art Randolph-Macon Women's College
1977
Williams, Mary Frances
211 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
American Painting 1900 to 1932 From the Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Ballinger, James K
48 pages
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Exhibition catalog)
1976
McShine, Kynaston
178 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
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)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
1974
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
80 pages
The Story of American Painting
1974
Davidson, Abraham A
168 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
The Romantacism of Eilshemius (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Karlstrom, Paul
24 pages
Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
1973
Onn, Gerald (Translator)
0 pages
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
Three Generations of 20th Century Art Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, MOMA
1972
Barr, Alfred/ W Rubin
231 pages (color)
Rhode Island School of Design Bulletin/American Watercolors & Drawings
1972
Ostraw, Stephen/Susan Carmalt
76 pages
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 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)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
Duncan Phillips Retrospective for a Critic (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Hormats, Bess
62 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
The Way of Western Art 1776-1914
1969
Richardson, Edgar P
204 pages
An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
1968
Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
463 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
The Century of the Impressionists
1967
Cogniat, Raymond
207 pages (color)
The New York Painter (Exhibition catalog)
1967
New York Univ Art Collection
107 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Metropolitan Museum of Art
64 pages
American Painting from 1830
1965
Everson Museum of Art
63 pages (color)
American Painting in the Twentieth Century
1965
Geldzahler, Henry
236 pages
The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation)
1965
Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson
162 pages (color)
Virgil Barker Memorial Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Miami, U of, Lowe Art Gallery
40 pages
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
160 pages
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
The Poindexter Collection of Contemporary American Art (Montana Historical Society)
1961
E.G. Poindexter; Frank O'Hara
30 pages
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
Masterpieces of Eilshemius (Exhibition catalog)
1959
Stix, Hugh (intro)
58 pages
The Story of Modern Art
1958
Cheney, Sheldon
723 pages (color)
New Art in America
1957
Baur, John I H
279 pages
Arizona State College Collection American Art
1956
Arizona State College
108 pages
Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Tate Gallery
72 pages
El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Museum of Modern Art
80 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
The Arizona State College Collection of American Art
1954
Arizona State University
110 pages
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
Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art
1951
Baur, John I H
170 pages
History of Modern Painting
1951
Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner
391 pages (color)
100 American Painters of the 20th Century
1950
Metropolitan Museum
132 pages (color)
Milestones of American Painting in Our Century
1949
Wight, Frederick
135 pages (color)
American Landscape Painting An Interpretation
1948
Born, Wolfgang
228 pages
Romantic Painting in America (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller
144 pages
Through the American Landscape
1941
Klitgaard, Kaj
323 pages (color)
The American Artist and His Times
1941
Saint-Gaudens, Homer
332 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists
1940
Hall, W. S.
150 pages (color)
Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Art Institute of Chicago
110 pages
Modern Art in America
1939
Cheney, Martha Candler
190 pages
Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Museum of Modern Art
320 pages
And He Sat Among the Ashes A Biography of Louis Eilshemius
1939
Schack, William
301 pages
American Painting Today
1939
Watson, Forbes (essay)
179 pages (color)
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today (Exhibition catalog)
1937
Editor, Cleveland Museum of Art
78 pages
First National Exhibition of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay)
32 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
Modern Works of Art: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York (Exhibition catalog)
1934
Barr, Alfred Jr. (Essay); A Conger Goodyear (Intro)