Animal and Sporting Art in America
2008Reuter Jr., Turner (The National Sporting Library, Middleburg, Virginia)
880 pages (color)
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1859 Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana - 1937 Fayetteville, North Carolina. Known for: Sporting dogs, birds and other animal in landscape paintings.
Born of French descent in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, on September 21, 1859. His father and two older brothers were killed during the Civil War; his mother had also died, and the Union General... Read full biography
Born of French descent in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, on September 21, 1859. His father and two older brothers were killed during the Civil War; his mother had also died, and the Union General W. T. Sherman destroyed the family plantation during the Mississippi campaign. Rosseau and his sister... Read full biography
Born of French descent in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, on September 21, 1859. His father and two older brothers were killed during the Civil War; his mother had also died, and the Union General W. T. Sherman destroyed the family plantation during the Mississippi campaign. Rosseau and his sister were rescued by a slave, and the two were raised by a family friend in Kentucky. Rosseau was educated in a private school and taught to shoot and fish by his guardian. He began working at seventeen,... Read full biography
Born of French descent in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, on September 21, 1859. His father and two older brothers were killed during the Civil War; his mother had also died, and the Union General W. T. Sherman destroyed the family plantation during the Mississippi campaign. Rosseau and his sister were rescued by a slave, and the two were raised by a family friend in Kentucky. Rosseau was educated in a private school and taught to shoot and fish by his guardian. He began working at seventeen, trying his hand at various trades to earn a living for himself and a dowry for his sister. He worked as a cowboy along the Chisholm Trail from Mexico to Kansas for six years, then purchased a stand of timber with an eye toward entering the lumber... Read full biography
Born of French descent in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, on September 21, 1859. His father and two older brothers were killed during the Civil War; his mother had also died, and the Union General W. T. Sherman destroyed the family plantation during the Mississippi campaign. Rosseau and his sister were rescued by a slave, and the two were raised by a family friend in Kentucky. Rosseau was educated in a private school and taught to shoot and fish by his guardian. He began working at seventeen, trying his hand at various trades to earn a living for himself and a dowry for his sister. He worked as a cowboy along the Chisholm Trail from Mexico to Kansas for six years, then purchased a stand of timber with an eye toward entering the lumber business. The venture failed when the logs sank to the bottom of the river, while he was rafting them along the water.&nbs... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesMaster Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles
1998McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator)223 pages (color)American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996Shipp, Steve159 pagesMaster Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993Southwest Art64 pagesThe American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989Fresella-Lee, Nancy222 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pages300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesFour Centuries of Sporting Art
1984Schmitt, Victoria Sandwick165 pagesAnimals in American Art 1880's-1980's
1981
(Exhibition catalog)Nassau County Museum64 pages (color)American Painting
1975Heckscher Museum32 pages (color)American Sports and Sportsmen Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1968
(Exhibition catalog)Kennedy Galleries48 pagesThe Art Colony at Old Lyme 1900-3
1966
(Exhibition catalog)Connecticut College for Women67 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1938-1939
1938Editors0 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesAmerican Painting: The Heckscher Museum
0Tenenbaum, F. (Curator)32 pages (color)