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Author: Estill Curtis Pennington ,
Martha R. Severens ,
Kevin Sharp
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
Dimensions:
Width: 25.90cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 30.20cm
Weight: 1.683kg
ISBN: 9781611176759
ISBN 10: 1611176751
Pages: 225
Publication Date: 30 December 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"This lovingly produced book presents a refreshing and meditative slant on Impressionism in the American South. -- ""(Maine Antique Digest)"" Without a doubt, this handsomely illustrated volume will be of great interest to enthusiasts of southern art and history.... Scenic Impressions effectively fills a significant gap in the literature on American Impressionism. -- ""The Journal of Southern History"""
This lovingly produced book presents a refreshing and meditative slant on Impressionism in the American South. --(Maine Antique Digest) Without a doubt, this handsomely illustrated volume will be of great interest to enthusiasts of southern art and history. . . . Scenic Impressions effectively fills a significant gap in the literature on American Impressionism. --The Journal of Southern History This lovingly produced book presents a refreshing and meditative slant on Impressionism in the American South. --(Maine Antique Digest)
This lovingly produced book presents a refreshing and meditative slant on Impressionism in the American South. --(Maine Antique Digest)
Author Information
Pennington, Estill Curtishas served in curatorial capacities for the Archives of American Art, National Portrait Gallery, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Morris Museum of Art. Pennington's Kentucky: The Master Painters from the Frontier Era to the Great Depression was a nominee for the Smithsonian's Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art and a winner of the 2009 Publication Award of Merit from the Kentucky Historical Society. His previous collaboration with the Johnson Collection is Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth-Century Paintings of the South from the Johnson Collection. Martha R. Severens is a graduate of Wells College in Aurora, New York, and holds a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. An art historian, she has served as curator at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, and the Greenville (S.C.) County Museum of Art. She has published studies on a variety of Southern artists, including Charles Fraser, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, William Halsey, and Mary Whyte. In addition she is the author of Andrew Wyeth: America's Painter, Greenville County Museum of Art: The Southern Collection, The Charleston Renaissance, and most recently, From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason. Kevin Sharp is the director of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee.
