Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having... Read full biography
Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having "never transcended the illustrator's tradition." (187). Many of these landscapes were snowscenes, and... Read full biography
Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having "never transcended the illustrator's tradition." (187). Many of these landscapes were snowscenes, and several depicted the Hudson River Valley. Thomas Birch was the son of William Russell Birch, an engraver and painter of enamel miniatures. They immigrated in 1794 to the United States and worked together... Read full biography
Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having "never transcended the illustrator's tradition." (187). Many of these landscapes were snowscenes, and several depicted the Hudson River Valley. Thomas Birch was the son of William Russell Birch, an engraver and painter of enamel miniatures. They immigrated in 1794 to the United States and worked together as William Birch and Son in Philadelphia. They did designing, engraving, and publishing of topographic views of the city, regarded "as some of the finest cityscapes done in American in the late 18th century" (Baigell 38). One of the best-known... Read full biography
Born in England, Thomas Birch became the earliest marine painter specialist in America, and also was noted for landscapes, although they were described by art historian James Flexner has having "never transcended the illustrator's tradition." (187). Many of these landscapes were snowscenes, and several depicted the Hudson River Valley. Thomas Birch was the son of William Russell Birch, an engraver and painter of enamel miniatures. They immigrated in 1794 to the United States and worked together as William Birch and Son in Philadelphia. They did designing, engraving, and publishing of topographic views of the city, regarded "as some of the finest cityscapes done in American in the late 18th century" (Baigell 38). One of the best-known scenes by Thomas Birch was Penn's Treaty Tree, a depiction of a huge shading tree dominating most of the ca... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (124)
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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
Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum)
2005
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell
573 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Peters, Lisa
111 pages (color)
110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC) (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Spanierman, Deborah (essay)
136 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
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
The Artist's Mount Desert American Painters on the Maine Coast
1994
Wilmerding, John
195 pages (color)
Fifty Years on Chestnut Street
1993
Schwarz-Philadelphia
80 pages (color)
Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture
1992
Kammen, Michael
192 pages
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Baekland, Frederick
160 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro)
136 pages (color)
Telling Tales 19th Century Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Pennsylvania Academy
100 pages (color)
The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography
1991
Sullivan, Mark W
225 pages
American Views Essays on American Art
1991
Wilmerding, John
357 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Schwarz-Philadelphia
36 pages (color)
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)
Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape
1989
Nelson, Harold B
111 pages (color)
American Painting
1989
Schwarz-Philadelphia
64 pages (color)
The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran
1989
Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville)
254 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors From the Huntington Collections
1988
Danly, Susan
42 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 Century of Philadelphia Artists Frank S. Schwarz & Son (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Hall, Audrey
64 pages (color)
Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem
1988
Wooden, Howard E
212 pages
Federal Philadelphia 1785-1825 The Athens of the Western World (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Garvan, Beatrice
96 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1986
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
148 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
1986
Richardson, Edgar P
157 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference
1984
Reaves, Wendy Wick
285 pages
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
Great Lakes Marine Painting of the Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Sweeney, J Gray
104 pages (color)
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
100 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
America in Print 1796-1941 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
128 pages (color)
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)
Dictionary of Sea Painters
1980
Archibald, E H H
455 pages (color)
American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980
1980
Galleries, Hirschl and Adler
112 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 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)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
The American View Art from 1770 to 1978 (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Kennedy Galleries
108 pages (color)
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
American Watercolor Painting
1977
Hoopes, Donelson F
208 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)
The American Flag in the Art of Our Country (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Allentown Art Museum
92 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
American Views Prospects and Vistas
1976
Deak, Gloria/James Flexner
134 pages (color)
American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Richardson, Edgar P
247 pages (color)
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Virginia Museum
151 pages (color)
The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes
1976
Wadsworth Atheneum
96 pages (color)
The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections
1975
Buckley, Charles E
377 pages (color)
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 pages (color)
City of Independence Views of Philadelphia Before 1800
1975
Snyder, Martin P
304 pages (color)
Seascape and the American Imagination (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Stein, Roger B
144 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
Masterworks by Pennsylvania Painters in Pennsylvania Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dickson, Harold E
64 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1971
Baigell, Mathew
288 pages (color)
The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes
94 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hawes, Louis
143 pages
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
American Ship Portraits & Marine Painting: Everson Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Sullivan, Max (Foreward); Philip Chadwick Foster Smith
64 pages (color)
The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes
1969
Canaday, John
1,520 pages (color)
History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies
1969
Flexner, James Thomas
307 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum
1968
Brewington, M V and Dorothy
530 pages (color)
Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Dickson, Harold E
234 pages
Hudson River School (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Genesco, S U College, New York
200 pages
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Public Education Association
64 pages (color)
History of American Marine Painting
1968
Wilmerding, John
179 pages (color)
American Marine Painting (2nd Edition)
1968
Wilmerding, John
204 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
American Paintings for Public and Private Collections
1967
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
52 pages (color)
History of Water Color in America
1966
Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck
160 pages (color)
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
Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953
1963
Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all
178 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
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition 1955 (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Pennsylvania Academy
153 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 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
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission) (Exhibition catalog)
1950
U S National Capital S C
270 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
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
230 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