Author: Coffey, John W.

Brand: Peabody Essex Museum

Features:

• YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS ACADEMIC

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 124

Release Date: 05-04-2016

Details: Product Description An exploration of the fascinating connections between the Isles of Shoals and the beautiful paintings that Childe Hassam created there Childe Hassam (1859–1935) was the foremost American impressionist of his generation. Prolific in oil paintings and watercolors, he found his native New England to be a touchstone for his art. Hassam had a fascination with Appledore, the largest island of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, and he traveled there almost every summer for thirty years. This fascinating book traces Hassam’s artistic exploration of Appledore and reveals a complex portrait of the island created over time. John W. Coffey, working with the marine biologist Hal Weeks, revisits Hassam’s painting sites, identifying where, what, and how the artist painted on the island. Kathleen M. Burnside considers the range of the artist's stylistic responses to the island's nature. A photo essay by Alexandra de Steiguer reveals Appledore’s enduring beauty. Review “A superb catalogue . . . with a number of excellent essays.”—Nicholas Basbanes, Fine Books and Collections (Nicholas Basbanes Fine Books and Collections) “Fascinating . . . captivating . . . gorgeous . . . [with] numerous in-depth essays, beautiful plates of all the works, a helpful selection of further readings and an index . . . a book that is useful as well as a delight to the eye.”—Anne Kugielsky, Antiques and the Arts Weekly (Anne Kugielsky Antiques and the Arts Weekly) Book Description This fascinating book connects the physical sites on New England’s Appledore Island, one of the Isles of Shoals, with the paintings that Childe Hassam produced there over the course of thirty years. About the Author Austen Barron Bailly is The George Putnam Curator of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum. John W. Coffey is deputy director and curator of American and modern art, North Carolina Museum of Art. 

Package Dimensions: 11.9 x 10.3 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English