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Once upon an Island: Stephen Scott Young in the Bahamas

Product Description: Celebrated for his meticulously finished watercolors, Stephen Scott Young is perhaps best known for his works painted in the Bahamas. This volume looks back over the artist's 25-year career painting there, from his earliest depictions of Bahamian subjects to the present day, encompassing portraits, landscapes and still lifes, as well as his distinctive images of Bahamian children playing marbles in various island locales...read more

By William H. Gerdts

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9780981580142 | Adelson Galleries, May 8, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Celebrated for his meticulously finished watercolors, Stephen Scott Young is perhaps best known for his works painted in the Bahamas.

Irving Ramsay Wiles, N.A.: Portraits and Pictures, 1899-1948

Product Description: AT BIRTH FEW COULD HAVE POSSIBLY known that another member of the Wiles family, a boy named Irving, would grow up to become a noted American artist.Â Like his father, the Hudson River school painter Lemuel M. Wiles, Irving Ramsay Wiles honed his craft through hard work, studying under such luminaries as Carolus Duran in Paris and in New York City under William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League...read more

By Geoffrey K. Fleming and William H. Gerdts (foreword by)

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9781555953591 | Hudson Hills Pr, March 16, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: AT BIRTH FEW COULD HAVE POSSIBLY known that another member of the Wiles family, a boy named Irving, would grow up to become a noted American artist.

American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape

Product Description: Luminous works by Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, John Henry Twachtman, are among the 100 seminal works featured in this book showcasing 27 artists. As members of the first generation of American painters to absorb the technique, brighter palette, and subject matter of Impressionism from their French counterparts, these artists transformed the heroic American landscape into a modern idiom, in atmospheric park and beach scenes, urban views, and charming interiors, with particular interest in optical effects, light, and the seasons...read more

By Susan Behrends Frank and William H. Gerdts (introduced by)

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9780847829484 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, May 22, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Luminous works by Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, John Henry Twachtman, are among the 100 seminal works featured in this book showcasing 27 artists.

Sargent's Venice

By Warren Adelson, William H. Gerdts, Elaine Kilmurray, Richard Ormond and Rosella Mamoli Zorzi

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9780300117172 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, January 8, 2007), cover price $65.00

East Coast/ West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper-american Impressionist

Showcases the life and work of the respected Impressionist artists from his education and recognition for his Gothic architectural paintings to his use of New York City skyscraper subjects and the impact of Spanish and Mexican influences on his later achievements.

By William H. Gerdts and Deborah Epstein Solon

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9781555952693 | Hudson Hills Pr, November 1, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Showcases the life and work of the respected Impressionist artists from his education and recognition for his Gothic architectural paintings to his use of New York City skyscraper subjects and the impact of Spanish and Mexican influences on his later achievements.

9780120463800, titled "Thermoluminescence Dating" | Academic Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $137.00 | also contains East Coast/ West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper-american Impressionist, Thermoluminescence Dating

An American Impressionist: The Art And Life Of Alson Skinner Clark

Product Description: This American Impressionist painter presents his work within an exploration of time the years that bracket the centennial and World War II. With the recent reconsideration of Impressionism in California as part of the mainstream, Clark is now emerging as one of its most notable practitioners...read more

By Alson Skinner Clark, William H. Gerdts (introduced by) and Deborah Epstein Solon

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9781555952440 | Hudson Hills Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This American Impressionist painter presents his work within an exploration of time the years that bracket the centennial and World War II.

9780072482621, titled "Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier" | 3rd edition (McGraw-Hill, November 1, 2002), cover price $55.01 | also contains An American Impressionist: The Art And Life Of Alson Skinner Clark, Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier

American Art at the Flint Institute of Arts

By Kelly Baum (contributor), Monique M. Desormeau (contributor), Melissa Miller Farr (contributor), William H. Gerdts (editor) and John Bernard Henry (foreword by)

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9781555952198 | Hudson Hills Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $50.00

The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture

Product Description: As E. H. Gombrich once observed, the still life is compelled to challenge and at the same time perpetuate tradition. Without the elements of recognition and comparison, and the discovery of the familiar in the unfamiliar, the genre would lose most of its meaning...read more

By Susan Landauer

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9780520239371 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: As E.

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9780520239388 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $38.95

The Golden Age of American Impressionism

Stunning full-color reproductions celebrate the work of the great American Impressionists in a study that traces the development of the movement, its regional variations, and the contributions of Mary Cassatt, William Merrit Chase, John Henry Twachtman, John Singer Sargent, childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, and other artists.

By William H. Gerdts and Carol Lowrey

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9780823020935 | Watson-Guptill Pubns, October 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Stunning full-color reproductions celebrate the work of the great American Impressionists in a study that traces the development of the movement, its regional variations, and the contributions of Mary Cassatt, William Merrit Chase, John Henry Twachtman, John Singer Sargent, childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, and other artists.

Pennsylvania Impressionism

By William H. Gerdts (editor) and Brian H. Peterson (editor)

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9780812237009 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 27, 2002, cover price $59.95

American Impressionism

More than four hundred illustrations along with photographs of the artists and excerpts from their letters and journals illustrate a new expanded edition of the definitive study of American Impressionism by the preeminent scholar in the field.

By William H. Gerdts

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9780789207371 | 2 edition (Abbeville Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: More than four hundred illustrations along with photographs of the artists and excerpts from their letters and journals illustrate a new expanded edition of the definitive study of American Impressionism by the preeminent scholar in the field.

9780789206121 | Min edition (Abbeville Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $11.95

9780789200747 | Abbeville Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 paintings by 125 different atrists, this luscious book will thoroughly satisfy the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism.

9780896600010 | Artabras, August 1, 1991, cover price $39.98 | About this edition: Surveys the history of impressionism in America, and looks at the most important artists and their work

9780070217102, titled "Electricity: Principles and Applications" | 3rd edition (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co, January 1, 1989), cover price $95.85 | also contains Electricity: Principles and Applications

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9781558598010 | Reprint edition (Abbeville Pr, October 1, 1994), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 paintings by 125 different atrists, this luscious book will thoroughly satisfy the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism.

Alice Schille

Product Description: Alice Schille (1869-1955) was one of the finest watercolour artists of her time. Born in Columbus, OH, she studied in New York and Paris, influenced by progressive art movements. Afterwards she travelled the world, painting still-lifes, landscapes and gardens, mothers and children, market and harbour scenes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William H. Gerdts

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9781555951818 | Hudson Hills Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Alice Schille (1869-1955) was one of the finest watercolour artists of her time.

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9780070163423, titled "Small Gas Engine Repair" | 2 ed edition (McGraw-Hill, January 1, 1993), cover price $14.95 | also contains Small Gas Engine Repair | About this edition: This popular guide is just the thing for people who seem to spend more time arguing with their lawn mowers than they do using them.

Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum

Hired to track down a former slave accused of murdering a popular and prominent rancher, Lex Cranshaw finds himself playing bodyguard when an angry mob threatens to murder the suspect in cold blood. Original.

By Pamela J. Belanger, Christopher B. Crosman (foreword by) and William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum (corporate author)

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9780061003875, titled "Track Down" | Harpercollins, March 1, 1992, cover price $3.50 | also contains Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Track Down | About this edition: Hired to track down a former slave accused of murdering a popular and prominent rancher, Lex Cranshaw finds himself playing bodyguard when an angry mob threatens to murder the suspect in cold blood.

Childe Hassam: Impressionist

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By Warren Adelson, Jay E. Cantor and William H. Gerdts

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9780789205872 | Abbeville Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $95.00

The World of Theodore Wores

Product Description: Catalogue for June 23-August 29, 1999 exhibition at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University.

By William H. Gerdts, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (corporate author) and Theodore Wores

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9780937031179 | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for, June 1, 1999, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Catalogue for June 23-August 29, 1999 exhibition at the Iris & B.

Natural Habitat: Contemporary Wildlife Artists of North America

Product Description: This 104-page catalogue with over fifty color plates, features images of world wildlife subjects by thirty-six of the foremost American and Canadian artists in the field including Douglas Allen, Robert Bateman, Carel Brest can Kempen, Guy Coheleach, Steve Kestrel, Kay Jackson, Lanford Monroe, Lindsay Scott, John Schoenherr, and Kent Ullberg...read more

By William H. Gerdts, Ira Spanierman Gallery (corporate author), Carol Lowrey, Lisa N. Peters and David J. Wagner, Ph. d.

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9780945936183 | Spanierman Gallery, July 1, 1998, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This 104-page catalogue with over fifty color plates, features images of world wildlife subjects by thirty-six of the foremost American and Canadian artists in the field including Douglas Allen, Robert Bateman, Carel Brest can Kempen, Guy Coheleach, Steve Kestrel, Kay Jackson, Lanford Monroe, Lindsay Scott, John Schoenherr, and Kent Ullberg.

California Impressionism

Presents a history of California impressionism, surveying the movement's source, exhibitions, and the works of established masters and lesser-known artists (view table of contents)

By William H. Gerdts and Will South

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9780789201768 | Abbeville Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Presents a history of California impressionism, surveying the movement's source, exhibitions, and the works of established masters and lesser-known artists

9780045520244, titled "Igneous Petrogenesis" | Unwin Hyman, April 1, 1989, cover price $196.50 | also contains California Impressionism, Igneous Petrogenesis | About this edition: As a majorÂ text in igneous petrology, this innovative book offers a much-needed, radically different approach to the study of igneous rocks.

The South and Midwest: Art Across America : Two Centuries of Regional Painting 1710-1920

Product Description: Featuring artists and professionals who worked outside America's three main cities - Boston, Philadelphia and New York - by 1920, this work chronicles the development of painting in cities and towns. It examines such issues as the evolution of art education, patronage and exhibition...read more

By William H. Gerdts

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9780896600959 | Abbeville Promotional, January 1, 1998, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Featuring artists and professionals who worked outside America's three main cities - Boston, Philadelphia and New York - by 1920, this work chronicles the development of painting in cities and towns.

The Plains States and the West: Art Across America : Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920

Featuring artists and professionals who worked outside America's three main cities - Boston, Philadelphia and New York - by 1920, this work chronicles the development of painting in cities and towns. It examines such issues as the evolution of art education, patronage and exhibition.

By William H. Gerdts

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9780896600942 | Reissue edition (Abbeville Promotional, January 1, 1998), cover price $75.00

9780789200631 | Reprint edition (Abbeville Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Featuring artists and professionals who worked outside America's three main cities - Boston, Philadelphia and New York - by 1920, this work chronicles the development of painting in cities and towns.

The East and the Mid-Atlantic: Art Across America : Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920

By William H. Gerdts

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9780896600935 | Abbeville Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Featuring artists and professionals who worked outside America's three main cities - Boston, Philadelphia and New York - by 1920, this work chronicles the development of painting in cities and towns.

9780789200617 | Reprint edition (Abbeville Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Featuring artists and professionals who worked outside America's three main cities - Boston, Philadelphia and New York - by 1920, this work chronicles the development of painting in cities and towns.

A Marble Quarry: The James H. Ricau Collection of Sculpture at the Chrysler Museum of Art

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By Chrysler Museum (corporate author), H. Nichols B. Clark and William H. Gerdts

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9781555951313 | Hudson Hills Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $75.00

Direct from Nature: The Oil Sketches of Thomas Hill

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By Crocker Art Museum (corporate author), Janice Tolhurst Driesbach, William H. Gerdts and Thomas Hill

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9780939666843 | Yosemite Assn, January 1, 1997, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Shipped within 24 hours!

Impressionist New York

Product Description: Organized geographically -- with chapters on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, lower Manhattan Central Park, the waterfront and bridges, the outer boroughs, and so on -- Impressionist New York chronicles the intersection of the city's history with art history and recaptures the city's romantic past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William H. Gerdts

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9780896600737 | Artabras, November 1, 1996, cover price $24.98 | About this edition: Organized geographically -- with chapters on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, lower Manhattan Central Park, the waterfront and bridges, the outer boroughs, and so on -- Impressionist New York chronicles the intersection of the city's history with art history and recaptures the city's romantic past.

9781558593282 | Abbeville Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The warm glow of another era illuminates New York city in this nostalgic tour around the turn-of-the-century metropolis during the heyday of Impressionism.

Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at the Historic New Orleans Collection

By Lynn D. Adams, Judith H. Bonner, Patricia Brady, William H. Gerdts, Louise C. Hoffman and George E. Jordan

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9780917860393 | Historic New Orleans, October 1, 1996, cover price $49.95

A Painter's Paradise: Artists and the California Landscape : Essays

Product Description: Essays by Gloria Rexford Martin and William H. Gerdts. Published by Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

By William H. Gerdts and Gloria Rexford Martin

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9780899510934 | Santa Barbara Museum of Art, June 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays by Gloria Rexford Martin and William H.

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