Artists of Michigan From The Nineteenth Century

Muskegon, MI: Muskegon Museum of Art, 1987. Blue wraps. 215 pp. profusely illustratedin color and bw. VG, few nicks to spine faint handwriting on ffep in light pencil. Item #11289

Index lists works by 26 artists. Includes an essay, endnotes, and selected bibliography for each of these artists, as well as a general bibliography. Guest curator of this exhibition was J. Gray Sweeney. Four chapters examine: The Artist-Explorers of Michigan (Catlin, T. Moran, Bierstadt); Pioneer Artists in Early Michigan (John M. Stanley, Frederick E. Cohen, Robert Duncanson, Mortimer L. Smith, Seth Arce Whipple); The Heroic Generation (Robert Hopkin, Charles H. Eaton, Letta C. Smith, Percy Ives, Myron Barlow, Voltaire Combe, Lawrence C. Earle, George G. Newell, Mathias J. Alten); Sons of Michigan: National and International Fame (Gari Melchers, Julius Rolshoven, Leon S. Dabo, Eanger Irving Couse, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Frederick Stuart Church, William Henry Howe, Will Howe Foote and Gerrit A. Beneker). A valuable referncew with other essays as well. Published to accompany an exhibition held from Sept. 17 to Nov. 1, 1987, one other location.

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