Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942 by Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall

Then came the genteel landscape painters with their portable easels and sunshades. The story begins with early 19th-century figures like James Fenimore Cooper, who abandoned a failing whaling business to take up writing novels. Numerous color photographsof artworks, personalities, and landscape viewsoffer inviting glimpses of the shifting tides of culture. Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach is an entertaining survey of the personalities who found a summer or year-round haven on the southeastern end of Long Island.

Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach by Helen Harrison, Constance Ayers, Edward Albee (Foreword) Hardcover: 176 pages Chronicle Books (Apr 1, 2002)Īn unspoiled coastline bathed in spectacular lightjust far enough from Manhattan bustlemade the Hamptons seductive for generations of creative types. Visually stunning, Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England explores the importance of place for artists in these colonies, and the development of impressionist Connecticut and modernist Maine within the visual traditions of the coast of New England.įeaturing approximately 80 works, Call of the Coast illustrates each major painting with extensive interpretative text and includes documentary photography to provide historical context for the artworks. These creative communities became an inspiration for artists and art students, among them Edward Hopper, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Rockwell Kent, and George Bellows.

The early 20th century brought renewed focus upon the image of the coast and witnessed the formation of art colonies in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and Ogunquit and Monhegan, Maine. Thomas Andrew Denenberg, Amy Kurtz Lansing, Susan Danly, Jamie Wyeth (Preface) Paperback: 128 pages Portland Museum of Art (Jun 2, 2009) Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England (Portland Museum of Art) ~ Mr.

Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942 by Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall