Landscape painter William Sartain, in 1877, was known primarily for his Tonalist paintings, especially scenes of the tidal wetlands of Nonquitt, Massachusetts, where he spent many summers, and along... Read full biography
Landscape painter William Sartain, in 1877, was known primarily for his Tonalist paintings, especially scenes of the tidal wetlands of Nonquitt, Massachusetts, where he spent many summers, and along the Manasquam River in New Jersey, where he often traveled on weekends. He helped found the Society... Read full biography
Landscape painter William Sartain, in 1877, was known primarily for his Tonalist paintings, especially scenes of the tidal wetlands of Nonquitt, Massachusetts, where he spent many summers, and along the Manasquam River in New Jersey, where he often traveled on weekends. He helped found the Society of American Artists. While Sartain evolved to broadly handled, painterly landscapes of coastal subject matter, his early work included heads and canal and street scenes of Venice and Algiers. Despite... Read full biography
Landscape painter William Sartain, in 1877, was known primarily for his Tonalist paintings, especially scenes of the tidal wetlands of Nonquitt, Massachusetts, where he spent many summers, and along the Manasquam River in New Jersey, where he often traveled on weekends. He helped found the Society of American Artists. While Sartain evolved to broadly handled, painterly landscapes of coastal subject matter, his early work included heads and canal and street scenes of Venice and Algiers. Despite modest sales, his dealer was the well-known William MacBeth of New York City. Exhibition venues included the Brooklyn Art Association, Pennsylvania Academy, the National Academy of Design and the Boston Art Club. Artist Celia Beaux said Sartain gave... Read full biography
Landscape painter William Sartain, in 1877, was known primarily for his Tonalist paintings, especially scenes of the tidal wetlands of Nonquitt, Massachusetts, where he spent many summers, and along the Manasquam River in New Jersey, where he often traveled on weekends. He helped found the Society of American Artists. While Sartain evolved to broadly handled, painterly landscapes of coastal subject matter, his early work included heads and canal and street scenes of Venice and Algiers. Despite modest sales, his dealer was the well-known William MacBeth of New York City. Exhibition venues included the Brooklyn Art Association, Pennsylvania Academy, the National Academy of Design and the Boston Art Club. Artist Celia Beaux said Sartain gave her her first valuable art instruction, and she studied with him for two years, 1881-1883, beginning with a... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (46)
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A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
Robert Lougheed Follow the Sun
2010
Hedgpeth, Don
360 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
Intimate Landscapes: Charles Warren Eaton and the Tonalist Movement in American Art, 1880-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Cleveland, David Adams
114 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Sellin, David; Mark Sullivan
52 pages (color)
Select Works: Fine American and European Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Caldwell, Joseph S III & IV
20 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
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Espana: American Artists and the Spanish Experience (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Boone, M Elizabeth
112 pages (color)
One Hundred Paintings by American & European Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Schwarz-Philadelphia
60 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
European & American Painting Philadelphia Collection LIII (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Schwarz-Philadelphia
48 pages (color)
Artists of New Bedford
1990
Blasdale, Mary Jean
60 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
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
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Looking Back A Perspective on the 1913 Inaugural Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Marling, Karal Ann
55 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)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Americans in the Arts 1890-1920
1985
Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab
672 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Tonalism An American Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Gerdts, William H (others)
94 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
The First Pose 1876: Turning Point in American Art
1976
Sellin, David
72 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
Great Artists of America
1963
Freedgood, Lillian
254 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 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
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)