This reference work covers American still-life painting from the beginning of the 19th century, when it became a well-known medium of expression, to the mid-20th century. Among the artists Gerdts analyzes are those who worked with still life extensively and those who painted them only occasionally, including the Peales, Severin Roesen, Samuel Marsden Brooks, William Michael Harnett, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The effects on this form of such movements as realism, impressionism, tonalism, orphism, and modernism are discussed in detail. The study concludes with 1939, when American art began to be dominated by abstraction.
- ISBN10 0826203558
- ISBN13 9780826203557
- Publish Date 12 December 1982
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Missouri Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 312
- Language English