Massachusetts Art History

Boston Athenaeum partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for a series of lectures on American art by David Dearinger, who is Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum. An art historian and curator, he received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a specialty in nineteenth-century American art. Titles include:

Sculptors and Their Patrons at Mount Auburn, 1820-1870 (47 minutes). David Dearinger discusses the American NeoClassic sculptors and their patrons that are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. [March 1, 2007]
Marmorean Affair: Neoclassic Sculptors and Boston (1 hour, 6 minutes) reveals the Bostonian obsession with neoclassical sculpture from the 1820s through the 1860s. [May 6, 2004]

TFAO's Distinguished Artists catalogue provides online access to biographical information for artists associated with this state. Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not listed on this page.

Books:

Monuments and Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts, By Martha K. Norkunas. Published by Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. ISBN 1588340856, 9781588340856. 258 pages. Google Books says: "At the center of Martha Norkunas's narrative is her intimate connection to the city of Lowell, Massachusetts through her family's rich history. She looks for the interplay of the personal and public, singular and collective memory and history through Lowell's public spaces, always examining where her personal memory converges with the history of the city."

A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston: From Newburyport to Plymouth, By Marty Carlock. Published by Harvard Common Press, 1993. ISBN 1558320628, 9781558320628. 256 pages

Artists and the Athenæum in the Early 19th Century, by Boston Athenaeum - Art, American - 1992. "September 3 through December 31, 1992."

Boston Lithography, 1825-1880: The Boston Athenæum Collection, by Sally Pierce, Catharina Slautterback - Art - 1991

Artworks in Our Parks: An Inventory of Public Memorials, Worcester, Massachusetts, By Pamela E Beall, Don Eaton, Parks and Recreation Dept, Worcester (Mass.). Published by Parks Dept, 1986

Boston, Statues, By Walter Muir Whitehill. Illustrated by Katharine Knowles. Published by Barre Publishers, 1970. ISBN 0827170157, 9780827170155. 120 pages

Other Statues of Boston: Reproductions of Other Statues of Boston as a Sequel to Our Brochure of 1946 Entitled "Some Statues of Boston," By Allan Forbes, Ralph Mason Eastman, State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.), Published by State Street Trust Company, Boston 1947. 93 pages

Some Statues of Boston: Reproductions of Some of the Statues for which Boston is Famous, with Information Concerning the Personalities and Events So Memorialized, By Allan Forbes, Ralph Mason Eastman, Published by State Street Trust Company, Boston, 1946. Original from the University of Virginia. Digitized Sep 7, 2007. 75 pages

The Athenæum Gallery, 1827-1873: The Boston Athenæum as an Early Patron of Art, By Mabel Munson Swan. Published 1940. The Boston Athenæum. Art. 312 pages. Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Digitized Sep 12, 2007

Oil Paintings by the Guild of Boston Artists, by Arnot Art Museum - Painting, American - 1928. Catalog of an exhibition held Apr., 1928.

Monuments, Tablets and Other Memorials Erected in Massachusetts to Commemorate the Service of Her Sons in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 ..., By Alfred Seelye Roe. Published by Wright & Potter printing company, state printers, 1910. Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Jul 18, 2006. 132 pages

Articles:

Joan Archer: "Women of Vision - A Century of Painting on Cape Cod" American Art Review March-April 2002 (Volume XIV, Number 2)

Christian Goodwillie & Jane Crosthwaite:"Hancock Shaker Village" American Art Review May-June 2004 (Volume XVI, Number 3)

Judith A. Curtis: "Exponents of the Boston School" American Art Review March-April 2000 (Volume XII, Number 2)

Judith A. Curtis: "Guild of Boston Artists: 90th Anniversary Exhibition" American Art Review September-October 2004 (Volume XVI, Number 5)

Erica E. Hirshler: "Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940" American Art Review September-October 2001 (Volume XIII, Number 5)

Martha Hoppin: "Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1900: The Pupils of William Morris Hunt" American Art Journal ( vol. 13, no. 1; 1981)

R. Roger Howlett: "The Lynn Beach Painters" American Art Review March-April 1999 (Volume XI, Number 2)

Jean G. Lightman, Paul Ingbretson & Ellen E. Roberts: "A Women's Perspective at the Guild of Boston Artists" American Art Review September-October 2001 (Volume XIII, Number 5)

Leah Lipton: "The Boston Artists' Association, 1841-1851" American Art Journal ( vol. 15, no. 4; 1983)

Christine McCarthy: "Provincetown: A Community of Artists" American Art Review September-October 2003 (Volume XV, Number 5)

Christine McCarthy: "Provincetown: A Creative Colony" American Art Review March-April 2005 (Volume XVII, Number 2)

Linda Muehlig: "Painting & Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art" American Art Review March-April 2002 (Volume XIV, Number 2)

Linda Muehlig: "Smith College Museum of Art" American Art Review May-June 2004 (Volume XVI, Number 3)

Cindy Nickerson: "A Century of Impressionism on Cape Cod" American Art Review July-August 1999 (Volume XI, Number 4)

James O'Gorman: "Painting at Gloucester" American Art Review September-October 1973 (Volume I, Number 1)

David Paley: "American Art Selections from Amherst College" American Art Review November-December 1976 (Volume III, Number 6)

Rebecca Reynolds: "85 Years of the North Shore Arts Association" American Art Review September-October 2007 (Volume XIX, Number 5)

Kathleen Valentine: "Families of the North Shore Arts Association" American Art Review May-June 2002 (Volume XIV, Number 3)

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