A snow scene specialist and known for his sentimental and detailed views of Niagara Falls and New England and Virginia, Regis Francois Gignoux was born in Lyon, France, and studied at the Eçole des... Read full biography
A snow scene specialist and known for his sentimental and detailed views of Niagara Falls and New England and Virginia, Regis Francois Gignoux was born in Lyon, France, and studied at the Eçole des Beaux-Arts under Paul Delaroche. He chose snowscenes as his specialty to distinguish his work from... Read full biography
A snow scene specialist and known for his sentimental and detailed views of Niagara Falls and New England and Virginia, Regis Francois Gignoux was born in Lyon, France, and studied at the Eçole des Beaux-Arts under Paul Delaroche. He chose snowscenes as his specialty to distinguish his work from his other contemporary Hudson River Valley School painters. George Inness was one of his students. He first came to America in 1840 because of his interest in a woman, whom he later married. However, he... Read full biography
A snow scene specialist and known for his sentimental and detailed views of Niagara Falls and New England and Virginia, Regis Francois Gignoux was born in Lyon, France, and studied at the Eçole des Beaux-Arts under Paul Delaroche. He chose snowscenes as his specialty to distinguish his work from his other contemporary Hudson River Valley School painters. George Inness was one of his students. He first came to America in 1840 because of his interest in a woman, whom he later married. However, he was so taken with the scenery he decided to stay, and he received numerous commissions for his work which was in the precise academic style of that period. He settled in Brooklyn where he served as the first president of the Brooklyn Art... Read full biography
A snow scene specialist and known for his sentimental and detailed views of Niagara Falls and New England and Virginia, Regis Francois Gignoux was born in Lyon, France, and studied at the Eçole des Beaux-Arts under Paul Delaroche. He chose snowscenes as his specialty to distinguish his work from his other contemporary Hudson River Valley School painters. George Inness was one of his students. He first came to America in 1840 because of his interest in a woman, whom he later married. However, he was so taken with the scenery he decided to stay, and he received numerous commissions for his work which was in the precise academic style of that period. He settled in Brooklyn where he served as the first president of the Brooklyn Art Association. He was a member of the National Academy of Design with whom he exhibited. By 1870, he returne... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (54)
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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
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 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
All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Driscoll, John Paul
144 pages (color)
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper
1995
Barnhill, Georgia B
99 pages (color)
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art
1989
Pennington, Estill Curtis
200 pages (color)
American Paintings V 1988
1988
Berry-Hill Galleries
180 pages (color)
Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings
1988
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
1,160 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven Artists in the White Mountains,1830-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
McGrath, Robert/B J McAdam
99 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Winter (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hall, Donald/Clifton C Olds
138 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)
Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes 1697-1901 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adamson, Jeremy Elwell
167 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980
1980
Galleries, Hirschl and Adler
112 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 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)
American Art at the Century
1977
Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis
0 pages
Art in the United States Capitol
1976
Editor for Architect of the Capitol
0 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The Hudson River and Its Painters
1972
Howat, John K; James Biddle (Preface); Carl Carmer (Foreward)
207 pages (color)
The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes
94 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Our American Heritage Loan Exhibition New Britain Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Bernard Danenberg Galleries
36 pages
Hudson River School (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Genesco, S U College, New York
200 pages
Great Artists of America
1963
Freedgood, Lillian
254 pages (color)
History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111)
1962
Flexner, James Thomas
407 pages
American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Pasadena Art Museum
64 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1956
King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross
63 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union
1953
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Landscape Painting An Interpretation
1948
Born, Wolfgang
228 pages
Hudson River Artists Highlights among the
1947
Sears, Clara Endicott
280 pages
The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition (Exhibition catalog)
1945
Sweet, Frederick A
123 pages
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America