Defining A Nation: Paintings of Nineteenth-Century America, Featuring the Wheeler Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
2007Vose Galleries, Boston (essays by Rachel Beaupre and Courtney Kopplin)
25 pages (color)
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1812 Glasgow, Scotland - 1896 Glenside, PA (near Philadelphia). Known for: Landscape, structure, antiquity.
A painter of grand-scale landscapes in the mid 19th century, Russell Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated with his parents in 1819 to western Pennsylvania where he grew up in... Read full biography
A painter of grand-scale landscapes in the mid 19th century, Russell Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated with his parents in 1819 to western Pennsylvania where he grew up in Pittsburgh. His birth name was William Thompson Russell Smith. He was self-taught as an artist, and became a... Read full biography
A painter of grand-scale landscapes in the mid 19th century, Russell Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated with his parents in 1819 to western Pennsylvania where he grew up in Pittsburgh. His birth name was William Thompson Russell Smith. He was self-taught as an artist, and became a highly successful scenic designer, scientific illustrator, as well as panoramic landscape painter. He excelled at dramatic vistas with atmospheric effects intending to show the grandeur of nature, but... Read full biography
A painter of grand-scale landscapes in the mid 19th century, Russell Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated with his parents in 1819 to western Pennsylvania where he grew up in Pittsburgh. His birth name was William Thompson Russell Smith. He was self-taught as an artist, and became a highly successful scenic designer, scientific illustrator, as well as panoramic landscape painter. He excelled at dramatic vistas with atmospheric effects intending to show the grandeur of nature, but he also painted small intimate landscapes, which some persons have thought he preferred. He began earning money as a painter of commercial signs. For fun, he did life-size portraits of famous heroes and then studied with portraitist James Reid... Read full biography
A painter of grand-scale landscapes in the mid 19th century, Russell Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated with his parents in 1819 to western Pennsylvania where he grew up in Pittsburgh. His birth name was William Thompson Russell Smith. He was self-taught as an artist, and became a highly successful scenic designer, scientific illustrator, as well as panoramic landscape painter. He excelled at dramatic vistas with atmospheric effects intending to show the grandeur of nature, but he also painted small intimate landscapes, which some persons have thought he preferred. He began earning money as a painter of commercial signs. For fun, he did life-size portraits of famous heroes and then studied with portraitist James Reid Lambdin from 1829 to 1832. A trip to Europe introduced him to the work of Frenchman Claude Lorraine whose vast landscape paint... Read full biography
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Defining A Nation: Paintings of Nineteenth-Century America, Featuring the Wheeler Collection
2007The 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 pagesAmerican Paintings from the Hainsworth Collection
2005Love, Richard; Michael Worley, Ph.D157 pages (color)American Artists Abroad and Their Inspiration: Selections from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
200464 pages (color)Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000Cuthbert, John A.301 pages (color)Vose Art Notes Works on Paper
2000Vose, Marcia L , editor29 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Nineteenth Century: Rediscovering American Painters (Vose Galleries)
1999
(Exhibition catalog)Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn40 pages (color)150 Years of Philadelphia Painters and Paintings: Selections From
1999Naeve, Milo (bios)47 pages (color)The Smiths: A Family of Philadelphia Artists
1999
(Exhibition catalog)Torchia, Robert W.62 pages (color)The Smith Family Painters: A Series of Exhibitions
1998
(Exhibition catalog)Torchia, Robert W. (text), David B. Rowland (exhib. checklist)80 pages (color)American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin877 pages (color)A Southern Collection
1992Pennington, Estill Curtis246 pages (color)American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992Strazdes, Diana511 pages (color)Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Baekland, Frederick160 pages (color)The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography
1991Sullivan, Mark W225 pagesArt Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters Collection Westmorland Museum of Art
1989Chew, Paul138 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings612 pagesThe American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989Fresella-Lee, Nancy222 pages (color)Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape
1989Nelson, Harold B111 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings472 pagesA Century of Philadelphia Artists Frank S. Schwarz & Son
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Hall, Audrey64 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)Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesArt and Artists of the South Robert P Coggins Collection
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Chambers, Bruce W149 pages (color)Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984Deak, Gloria-Gilda288 pagesThe Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Wilmerding, John104 pagesArtists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983Wright, R Lewis200 pagesDictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982Soria, Regina332 pagesA Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors
1981Kennedy Galleries81 pages (color)American Realism and the Industrial Age
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Doezema, Marianne147 pages (color)The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III325 pages (color)In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all322 pages (color)The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesAmerican Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum
1975Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay)182 pages (color)19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975
1974
(Exhibition catalog)Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay)95 pages (color)American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection)
1960
(Exhibition catalog)Pasadena Art Museum64 pagesRussell Smith Romantic Realist
1956Lewis, Virginia E348 pagesTwo Hundred and Fifty Years (of) Painting in Maryland
1945
(Exhibition catalog)Baltimore Museum of Art78 pagesThe Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition
1945
(Exhibition catalog)Sweet, Frederick A123 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesThe History and Ideals of American Art
1931Neuhaus, Eugen444 pages