"The American Pre-Raphaelites" by Linda S. Ferber

The American Pre-Raphaelites Radical Realists Linda S. Ferber, Nancy K. Anderson, Tim Barringer, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Sophie Lynford, Mark Mitchell, Janice Simon, Diane Waggoner

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 16 Apr 2019
ISBN:: 9780300242522
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 320 pages: 260 x 235mm
Illustrations:: 175 color illus.

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An illuminating look at how the Pre-Raphaelite movement was embraced by a group of vanguard American artists

Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer—an English expatriate and acolyte of the hugely influential English critic John Ruskin—the American Pre-Raphaelite artists followed Ruskin’s dictum to depict nature close up and with great fidelity. Many members of the group (including Farrer, who served in the Union army during the American Civil War) were also abolitionists, and several created works with a rich political subtext.

Featuring the work of artists such as Fidelia Bridges, Henry and Thomas Charles Farrer, Charles Herbert Moore, Henry Roderick Newman, and William Trost Richards, this generously illustrated volume is filled with insightful essays that explore the influence of Ruskin on the American artists, the role of watercolor and photography in their work, symbolism and veiled references to the Civil War, and much more.

Linda S. Ferber is museum director emerita and senior art historian at the New-York Historical Society. Nancy K. Anderson is curator and head of the Department of American and British Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.