Born in England to a merchant sailor and a washerwoman, Thomas Chambers became a painter known for landscape and marine scenes, especially of the Hudson River from Albany and from New York City, all... Read full biography
Born in England to a merchant sailor and a washerwoman, Thomas Chambers became a painter known for landscape and marine scenes, especially of the Hudson River from Albany and from New York City, all in naive, primitive style with bold color, rhythmic shapes, and strong contours applied with... Read full biography
Born in England to a merchant sailor and a washerwoman, Thomas Chambers became a painter known for landscape and marine scenes, especially of the Hudson River from Albany and from New York City, all in naive, primitive style with bold color, rhythmic shapes, and strong contours applied with brush-work that made his work seem vital and lively. He differed from most painters of primitive style because, influenced by his decorative style, he used large, rhythmic shapes with light and shadow... Read full biography
Born in England to a merchant sailor and a washerwoman, Thomas Chambers became a painter known for landscape and marine scenes, especially of the Hudson River from Albany and from New York City, all in naive, primitive style with bold color, rhythmic shapes, and strong contours applied with brush-work that made his work seem vital and lively. He differed from most painters of primitive style because, influenced by his decorative style, he used large, rhythmic shapes with light and shadow instead of flat forms. And he certainly differed in style from the Hudson River School of Painting that, influenced by European painting, was becoming active at the time he started his career in America. In that era, some persons were disdainful of the... Read full biography
Born in England to a merchant sailor and a washerwoman, Thomas Chambers became a painter known for landscape and marine scenes, especially of the Hudson River from Albany and from New York City, all in naive, primitive style with bold color, rhythmic shapes, and strong contours applied with brush-work that made his work seem vital and lively. He differed from most painters of primitive style because, influenced by his decorative style, he used large, rhythmic shapes with light and shadow instead of flat forms. And he certainly differed in style from the Hudson River School of Painting that, influenced by European painting, was becoming active at the time he started his career in America. In that era, some persons were disdainful of the Hudson River painters as being too influenced by Europeans, but in the 21st century, reportedly "Chamber's cartoon like en... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (57)
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Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1809-1869
2008
Foster, Kathleen A.
0 pages (color)
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
All American: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Flint Institute of (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Flint Institute of Arts
272 pages (color)
Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Hoppin, Martha
84 pages
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
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Naive Paintings (National Gallery Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Chotner, Deborah
668 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography
1991
Sullivan, Mark W
225 pages
Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape
1989
Nelson, Harold B
111 pages (color)
American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits
1988
Rumford, Beatrix
449 pages (color)
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
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)
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
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 Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
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
American Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Woodward, Richard B
110 pages (color)
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
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)
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)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
Seascape and the American Imagination (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Stein, Roger B
144 pages (color)
American Paintings (in) The Rhode Island Historical Society
1974
Goodyear, Frank H
116 pages (color)
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)
The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hawes, Louis
143 pages
Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
American Ship Portraits & Marine Painting: Everson Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Sullivan, Max (Foreward); Philip Chadwick Foster Smith
64 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Boston Painters 1720-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Boston University
70 pages
Hudson River School (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Genesco, S U College, New York
200 pages
History of American Marine Painting
1968
Wilmerding, John
179 pages (color)
American Marine Painting (2nd Edition)
1968
Wilmerding, John
204 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
Gardner, Albert and S Field
284 pages
History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111)
1962
Flexner, James Thomas
407 pages
101 Masterpieces of Primitive American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Rorimer, James/JohnWalker
159 pages (color)
Rediscovered Painters of Upstste New York/1700-1875
1958
Jones, Agnes Halsey
80 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection