Artists of Michigan from the Nineteenth Century

Muskegon and Detroit, MI: Muskegon Museum of Art and the Detroit Historical Museum, 1987. 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. A sesquicentennial exhibition commemorating Michigan statehood, 1837-1987 at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Detroit Historical Museum. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: CHAPTER 1: ARTIST-EXPLORERS OF MICHIGAN: George Catlin by Nancy K. Anderson; Thomas Moran by J. Gray Sweeney; Albert Bierstadt by J. Gray Sweeney. CHAPTER 2: PIONEER ARTISTS OF EARLY MICHIGAN: John M. Stanley by Julie Schimmel; Frederick E. Cohen by Marcia Goldberg; Robert Duncanson by Joseph D. Ketner II; Morimer L. Smith by J. Gray Sweeney; Seth Arca Whipple by J. Gray Sweeney. CHAPTER 3: THE HEROIC GENERATION: ARTISTS IN MICHIGAN: Detroit and its development in the arts by Susan Hobbs; Robert Hopkin by Sylvia Krissoff; Charles H. Eaton by J. Gray Sweeney; Letta C. Smith by Annette Stott; Percy Ives by J. Gray Sweeney; Myron Barlow by Annette Stott; Art in western Michigan by J. Gray Sweeney; Voltaire Combe by J. Gray Sweeney; Lawrence C. Earle by J. Gray Sweeney; George G. Newell by J. Gray Sweeney; Mathias J. Alten by J. Gray Sweeney. CHAPTER 4: SONS OF MICHIGAN: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM: Gari Melchers by Annette Stott; Julius Rolshoven by Virginia Couse Leavitt; Leon S. Dabo by Arleen Pancza; Eanger Irving Couse by Virginia Couse Leavitt; Frederick Carl Frieseke by Arleen Pancza; Frederick Stuart Church by J. Gray Sweeney; William Henry Howe by J. Gray Sweeney; Will How Foote by J. Gray Sweeney; Gerrit A. Beneker by J. Gray Sweeney; EPILOGUE: Lessons in the History of American Art from the Artists of Michigan by J. Gray Sweeney.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.