An American Master of Watercolor and Etching by Peter Hastings Falk, 1999. Sears Gallagher was a Boston painter who is counted in the pantheon of the first generation of the "Boston School" that... Read full biography
An American Master of Watercolor and Etching by Peter Hastings Falk, 1999. Sears Gallagher was a Boston painter who is counted in the pantheon of the first generation of the "Boston School" that included Edmund C. Tarbell, William M. Paxton, Joseph R. DeCamp, Frank Benson, Philip L. Hale, and... Read full biography
An American Master of Watercolor and Etching by Peter Hastings Falk, 1999. Sears Gallagher was a Boston painter who is counted in the pantheon of the first generation of the "Boston School" that included Edmund C. Tarbell, William M. Paxton, Joseph R. DeCamp, Frank Benson, Philip L. Hale, and Herman Dudley Murphy. While these artists built their careers on a foundation of portraiture and still life painting, Gallagher pursued a different route. In contrast, he focused on watercolors and... Read full biography
An American Master of Watercolor and Etching by Peter Hastings Falk, 1999. Sears Gallagher was a Boston painter who is counted in the pantheon of the first generation of the "Boston School" that included Edmund C. Tarbell, William M. Paxton, Joseph R. DeCamp, Frank Benson, Philip L. Hale, and Herman Dudley Murphy. While these artists built their careers on a foundation of portraiture and still life painting, Gallagher pursued a different route. In contrast, he focused on watercolors and etchings to create landscapes and marine scenes. In this pursuit he was a pioneer of his time. Watercolor painting would not be widely appreciated until the 1890's even though the American Water Color Society was founded in New York in 1866, and was led by... Read full biography
An American Master of Watercolor and Etching by Peter Hastings Falk, 1999. Sears Gallagher was a Boston painter who is counted in the pantheon of the first generation of the "Boston School" that included Edmund C. Tarbell, William M. Paxton, Joseph R. DeCamp, Frank Benson, Philip L. Hale, and Herman Dudley Murphy. While these artists built their careers on a foundation of portraiture and still life painting, Gallagher pursued a different route. In contrast, he focused on watercolors and etchings to create landscapes and marine scenes. In this pursuit he was a pioneer of his time. Watercolor painting would not be widely appreciated until the 1890's even though the American Water Color Society was founded in New York in 1866, and was led by such watercolor geniuses as Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran, William Trost Richards, Francis Hopkinson Smith, John LaFarge, Henry Far... Read full biography
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About Sears Gallagher: Books
Books & Publications (25)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Maine: A Legacy in Painting, 1830 to the Present (Spanierman Galleries Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Chambers, Bruce (essay)
108 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Spanierman Gallery (Editor)
120 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Peters, Lisa
111 pages (color)
Sears Gallagher, Catalogue Raisonne
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Monhegan: The Artists' Island
1995
Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward)
192 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation
1990
Lang, Gladys & Kurt
437 pages
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
Index of American Print Exhibitions 1882-2940 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Wilson, Raymond
906 pages
The Boston Painters 1900-1930
1986
Gammell, R H Ives
204 pages (color)
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