Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to RockportUniversity Rochester Press, 1999 - 927 pages An account of the life and work of the American Scene painter Carl W. Peters, and the place of his work within the genre. This extensive and lavishly produced book provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the history of American Scene painting and Regionalism with an emphasis on artists active during the period between the two World Wars.Though little known until recently, Carl W. Peters embodied the essence of American Scene painting throughout his extremely productive life. His works are considered here within the broad panorama of cultural and intellectual history during these exciting decades, when modernism and indigenous American realism were in constant conflict. |
Contents
The Burgeoning Threat to Tradition Summer 1913February 1914 215 Food Show Failure of the Pacifists as America Declares War The Homestead | 21 |
The Rochester Art Clubs Fiftythird Annual Exhibition Rochester Arti | 69 |
Strange Encounters in the Cape Ann Milieu MarchAugust 1933 674 graphical Landscape Modern American Realists at the Golden Gate The Tenaciou | 75 |
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of Illustrations ix 10 Transition in Life and Art 18901904 | 109 |
Optimism in Genteel Rochester American Arts Rising Status at the Turn of | 118 |
Rochester City of Pioneers 15351818 17 Garde in 1907 | 130 |
Penetrating the Wilderness to Found Rochester in Americas Natural Church ca 1820 Muckrakers and Nihilistsand Royce ca 1908 The New Society of... | 153 |
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Coming of Age in the Era of Big Business AprilDecember 1924 445 61 From the Genesee to Cape Ann in 1929 MarchJuly 1929 | 554 |
513 | 579 |
Victory at the National Academy September 1925April 1926 470 Rochester Art Clubs New Home The American Federation of Arts Exhibition | 581 |
í A Local Art Star AprilMay 1926 478 65 The Great Mural AprilJune 1930 | 590 |
Carl W Peters Rochester Past Present and Future | 591 |
Art Colony Collegiality May 1926January 1927 486 66 The Great Mural Unveiled JuneSeptember 1930 | 601 |
The Rediscovery of Mother Europe in the Victorian Age 18651897 67 17 The Bloodless Revolution 1911 | 176 |
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Rochesters Reflection of the New York Art Scene in the 1890s 18901900 97 of the Armory Show Toward a Temple of Art in Rochester Gathering ... | 206 |
Greenwich Village AvantGarde in the Shadow of Europes War October 1914 35 The Paris Sketchbook SeptemberOctober 1918 | 321 |
A Farm Boy Silhouetted against a Cultural Backdrop March 1915 236 37 A New Beginning at the Art Students League November 1919January 1920 | 333 |
Depositing the Air of Paris in New York MarchMay 1915 241 38 Learning the Ropes in New York in 1920 JanuaryMay 1920 | 340 |
West to Fairport | 350 |
Illustration as a Discipline September 1915 259 40 The Start of the Great Summer of 1921 in Woodstock Summer 1921 | 356 |
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A Winter Symphony in 1927 JanuaryMay 1927 497 and Peters on the Fairport Farm | 614 |
693 | 624 |
George Luks Woman with Black | 663 |
743 | 672 |
The War between the American ScenistRegionalists and the Modernists October Notes 805 | 706 |
Life at Woodstock upon the Arrival of Peters Summe | 28 |
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