Polk and [Bruce] Porter involved the Guild [for Arts and Crafts] in sponsoring a fountain dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson, a project patterned after those of the Fairmount Park Association in Philadelphia (1871) and the New York Municipal Art Society (1893), organizations established to donate works of civic art to their respective cities.
In those years [1892-1906], before the Mark Hopkins Art Institute [today the California School of Fine Arts] was consigned to the flames in the 1906 holocaust, the building served as the center of San Francisco's artistic and Bohemian life.
Sculptor Robert Aitken, an instructor at the Art Institute for whom Alma [de Bretteville] had previously posed, asker her to model for a monument he was planning in memory of President William McKinley.
There's the promise of adventure in the very smell of the briny air, at the turn of the century the bay was alive with seafaring men of every description - colorful characters who spoke exotic languages and told marvelous tales.
In San Francisco, Market Street and the Ferry Building, at Dusk, 1909, we visit a time when auto travel was less than convenient, and the ferries that came and went from the old building at the foot of Market Street provided the most practical transport to the bustling bay-area towns.
Mechanical reproduction: Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936), Illuminations 217ñ51(on reserve in Wilson Library); William M. Ivins, Prints and Visual Communication (1953); Roland Barthes, "The Plates of the Encyclopedia" (1964), New Critical Essays 23ñ39 (on reserve in Wilson Library).
Hagstrum, Jean H. The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray.
The new Laokoon; an essay on the confusion of the arts
Yesterday the Minister of Education ordered the 23-year-old artist from the Applied Arts School ("Kunstgewerbeschule") to be expelled as a youth corrupter.
The artist, born on July 14, 1862, however, was strongly influenced during his studies at the Applied Arts School ("Kunstgewerbeschule") of the ruling historical painting methods.
He created the paintings on the ceiling in the entrance of the Burgtheater and pictures in the stairwell of the Art History Museum.
Art Deco was a style of design popular in the 1920s and '30s, with its sleek, streamlined forms and elegant, geometric aesthetic.
Art Deco grew out of a conscious effort to simplify the elaborate turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau style, to make it more responsive to the new "machine-age" ideals of speed and glamour.
Art Deco appears to be a popular style for telephone and telegraph buildings, as can be seen in the Indiana Bell Building in Evansville.
In 1909, the National Ornamental Glass Manufacturers Association gathered together the best of their members' residential stained glass designs for their Official Catalog.
These Arts and Crafts stained glass designs can be found homes throughout the United States and Canada.
Art Glass in 1909 A Facsimile Reproduction of the Official Catalog of the National Ornamental Glass Manufacturers Association
Frederick Remington was born in Canton, New York, in 1861.
He had one year of study at Yale’s school of art, and brief study with American Impressionist J. Alden Weir at the Art Student League in New York.
Most of Remington’s time was spent out west, painting for exhibitions, and submitting illustrations for easterners hungry for a glimpse of the American West.
Universal Special Art History Slide Sets(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A choice selection from the art of many countries, featuring painting, stained glass, sculpture, jewelry, pottery, monuments, textiles, and more.
Each colorful slide set is a comprehensive survey of its particular subject.
Art of the American Indian, Set of 50
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Art Tatum, (1909-1956)
Not enough can be said of his ability.
Tatum often played solo, but he did form a trio in 1943 with bassist Slam Stewart and guitarist Tiny Grimes and did a series of recordings with other musicians in the 1950s.
