2001-2003 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "Realism in American Art and American Realist Artists"

 

(above: Robert Salmon, British Merchantman in the River Mersey off Liverpool, 1809, oil on canvas, 27.9 x 50.6 inches, De Young Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)



Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "Realism in American Art and American Realist Artists." Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the date of publication in Resource Library.

 

Our 13 articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism (9/22/03)

The Inner Land: Realist Paintings of Anna Marie Schnur (9/15/03)

Edward Hopper and Urban Realism (9/4/03)

Opening Remarks for "Realism Revisited - The Florence Academy of Art," essay by Rudolf Kober (5/6/03)

Family Matters: American Impressionism and Realism (3/24/03)

 

From Realism to Abstraction: Art in New Mexico, 1917-2002 (10/31/02)

Joseph Peller: Romantic Myth, Realism and Aestheticism, essay by Diana Mille, (6/11/02)

Realism in the Abstract Age, essay by Jason Edward Kaufman (8/27/01)

Pennsylvania Painters and the Roots of Realism, essay by Judith Hansen O'Toole (8/2/01)

To Be Real, by Richard J. Powell (6/8/01)

 

From Wyeth to Welliver: American Realism of the Twentieth Century (5/28/01)

Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting, 1950-2000 (3/30/01)

Ultra-realistic Sculpture by Marc Sijan (2/27/01)

 

(above: John Singer Sargent, Mrs Henry White, 1883, oil on canvas, 87 x 55 inches, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

(above: John Singer Sargent, Rosina Ferrara, Head of a Capri Girl, c. 1878, oil on cardboard, 19.5 x 16.25 inches, Denver Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

(above:  Frederick Ferdinand Schafer, Morning on Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley, Unknown date, oil on canvas, 30 x 50 inches, Private collection, Portland, Oregon.  Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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