American Workman by Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott

Posted by on Dec 15, 2022 in | Comments Off on American Workman by Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott American Workman The Life and Art of John Kane by Maxwell King and Louise Lippincott University of Pittsburgh Press, 288 pp., hardcover $40 American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane reconsiders the legacy of a prominent, self-taught Pittsburgh artist. Kane was a pugnacious, heavy-drinking Scottish immigrant who toiled for 40 years in mines, steel mills and railyards before achieving...
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Artists of Wyeth Country by W. Barksdale Maynard

Posted by on Dec 1, 2021 in | Comments Off on Artists of Wyeth Country by W. Barksdale Maynard Artists of Wyeth Country Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth by W. Barksdale Maynard Temple University Press, 237 pp., paperback $23 Few artists are so intimately associated with a regional landscape as the painters of the Brandywine area, popularly known as “Wyeth Country.” Rooted in exacting draftsmanship and rich visual storytelling, this artistic tradition was founded by illustrator...
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