Year: 2005
Type: report
Abstract: Although American painters of the late nineteenth century were much less influential than their European counterparts, the methods and careers of the leading American artists of the period reflect the same division between visual and conceptual approaches that characterized French art.The conceptual painters Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent matured early, and made individual landmark paintings, whereas the experimentalists Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and James McNeill Whistler developed more slowly, and made their contributions gradually in larger bodies of work.These American artists were less innovative than their French contemporaries, but they created approaches to art no less considered than those of their more famous counterparts.
DOI: 10.3386/w11545
Author: David Galenson
Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1567416327