Creating a World on Paper - Harry Fenn''s Career in Art

Informationen zum Autor Sue Rainey is the author of Creating "Picturesque America" (1994), which won the Charles C. Eldredge Prize (Smithsonian) and the Ewell L. Newman Award. Rainey has served as editor of Imprint: Journal of the American Historical Print Collector's Society . She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Klappentext Harry Fenn was one of the most skilled and successful illustrators in the US in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a time when illustrated periodicals and books were the primary means of sharing visual images. This handsomely designed volume documents Fenn's career from the 1860s until his death in 1911. Sue Rainey also recounts his sketching trips in the western US, Europe, and the Middle East, which enhanced his reputation for depicting far-flung places at a time when the US was taking a more prominent role on the world stage.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Rainey
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9781558499799
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-979-9
• No. of pages: 516
• Series: Studies in Print Culture and t; Studies in Print Culture and t
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education