Pennsylvania Art History

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:

Born of Fire: the Valley of Work: Industrial Scenes of Southwestern ..., By Barbara L. Jones, Edward K. Muller, Joel Arthur Tarr. Published 2006 by Westmoreland Museum of American Art. 160 pages. ISBN:0931241316. Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Nov 13, 2007.

Treasures of the Greater Lehigh Valley, by Martha Young Hutson, Christine I. Oaklander, David R. Brigham, Allentown Art Museum - History - 2003 - 48 pages Features examples from the collections of artistic organizations in Berks, Lehigh, and Northampton counties in Pennsylvania: Allentown Art Museum,

Pennsylvania Impressionism, By Brian H. Peterson, William H. Gerdts, Sylvia Yount. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. ISBN 0812237005, 9780812237009. 340 pages

Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting, 1950-2000, By Michael A. Tomor, John Vanco, Bruce Katsiff, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, James A. Michener Art Museum, Erie Art Museum, Erie Art Museum, James A. Michener Art Museum, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Published 2001 by Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Painting, American. 71 pages. ISBN:0970099533

Folk Art Motifs of Pennsylvania, By Frances Lichten. Published by Dover Publications, 1999. ISBN 0486233030, 9780486233031. 71 pages

The Genius Belt: The Story of the Arts in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, By George S. Bush. Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. ISBN 0271016736, 9780271016733. 192 pages

The Pennsylvania Impressionists, By Thomas Folk. Published by Associated University Presses, 1997. ISBN 0838636993, 9780838636992. 136 pages

The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American ..., by Thomas Folk, Allentown Art Museum - Pennsylvania school of landscape painting - 1984 - 95 pages Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Allentown Art Museum and others, Sept. 16, 1984-Sept. 2, 1985

Return of the Figure: A Pennsylvania Perspective, By Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Published 1985 by Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art from September 15 to December 8, 1985.

Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture, By Vernon Gay, Marilyn Evert. Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983. ISBN 0822934671, 9780822934677. 451 pages

The Sculptures at Gettysburg, By Wayne Craven, Milo Stewart, Published by Eastern Acorn Press, 1982. ISBN 0915992221, 9780915992225. 96 pages

Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze and Stone, By Fairmount Park Art Association. Published by Walker Pub. Co., 1974. ISBN 080270459X, 9780802704597. 363 pages

Pennsylvania Folk Art, October 20 through December 1, 1974, Allentown Art Museum, by Allentown Art Museum, Pa Allentown - Folk art - 1974

Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Art in Pennsylvania, By Paul A. Chew, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Published by Westmoreland County Museum of Art, 1959. 105 pages. Google Books says: "This catalogue is to record the exhibition assembled on the occasion of the opening of the Westmoreland County Museum of Art."

Pennsylvania Folk-art: An Interpretation, By John Joseph Stoudt. Published by Schlechter's, 1948. Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Jan 25, 2007. 402 pages. Google Books says: "Revision of Consider the lillies, how they grow, pub. in 1937 as the 2d annual vol. of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society."

Pennsylvania Dutch American Folk Art, By Henry J. Kauffman, Charles Geoffrey Holme. Published by American Studio Books, 1946. Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Jan 25, 2007. 136 pages

Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania, By Pennsylvania Art Project, Index of American design, Index of American Design Pennsylvania, Frances Lichten, Index of American Design, Austin Davison, Compiled by Frances Lichten, Austin Davison. Published by Pennsylvania Art Project, Pennsylvania, 1941 Google Books says: "This portfolio is selected, adapted, and compiled from original sources by Frances Lichten and Austin Davison II."

Water Colors by Philadelphia Water Color Club: May 3-26, 1940, by Arnot Art Museum - Watercolor painting, American - 1940

Articles:

Jim Alterman: "Pennsylvania Impressionists and Modernists" American Art Review September-October 2001 (Volume XIII, Number 5)

Alice A. Carter: "The Red Rose Girls" American Art Review November-December 2003 (Volume XV, Number 6)

Doreen Bolger, "The Education of the American Artist", In this Academy, 1976, The Pennsylvania Academy: pp. 51-74

Betsy Fahlman: "Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting" American Art Review July-August 2006 (Volume XVIII, Number 4)

Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Frank Goodyear, "A History of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1906", pp. 12-48

Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Frank Goodyear, "American Landscape Painting", pp. 122-137

Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Frank Goodyear, "The Eight", pp, 188-228

Erika Jaeger-Smith: "The Bucks County . Framemaking Tradition" American Art Review January-February 2001 (Volume XIII, Number 1)

Erika Jaeger-Smith: "Phillips' Mill: Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of Art" American Art Review May-June 2005 (Volume XVII, Number 3)

Ilene D. Lieberman: "Race and Remembrance: Philadelphia's All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors and the Politics of Place" American Art Journal ( vol. 29, nos. 1 and 2; 1998)

Joan M. Marter: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Joan Marter, "Contemporary American Art at the Academy", pp. 229-258

McCombs, Douglas. 2002. " Western Pennsylvania Folk: Art from the People." Western Pennsylvania History 85 (Winter 2002-2003): 10-20.

Milo M. Naeve: "An Aristocratic Windsor in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia" American Art Journal ( vol. 11, no. 3; 1979)

Judith Hansen O'Toole: American Art Review "Valley of Work: Scenes of Industry in Western Pennsylvania" February-March 96

Judith Hansen O'Toole: American Art Review " George Luks: The Watercolors Rediscovered" June-July 95

Judith Hansen O'Toole & Carla S. Herling: "Treasures from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art" American Art Review January-February 1999 (Volume XI, Number 1)

Judith Hansen O'Toole with Kevin O'Toole: "Still-Life Painting in Southwestern Pennsylvania" American Art Review July-August 2001 (Volume XIII, Number 4)

Brian H. Peterson: "Impressionism Comes to Bucks County" American Art Review September-October 2002 (Volume XIV, Number 5)

Michael William Schantz: American Art Review "Woodmere Art Museum, The Artists' Museum," April-May 94

Michael William Schantz: "The Pennsylvania Impressionist Legacy" American Art Review September-October 2005 (Volume XVII, Number 5)

J. Daniel Selig: "A Visit to the Reading Museum, Part I" American Art Review January-February 1974 (Volume 1, Number 2)

Darrel L. Sewell: "Three Centuries of Philadelphia Artists" American Art Review May-June 1976 (Volume III, Number 3)

Mark Thistlethwaite: The Pennsylvania Academy: In this Academy, 1976, Mark Thistlethwaite, "The Artist As Interpreter of American History", pp. 99-120

Lori Verderame: "Bucks County Artists" American Art Review November-December 2000 (Volume XII, Number 6)

David Wilkins: "The American Painting Collection at the Sarah Scaife Gallery, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh" American Art Review March-April 1975 (Volume II, Number 2)

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