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	The Old Print Shop - Brief History of N. Currier and Currier & Ives
		Ives knowledge of art, his ability to understand what the public wanted, and to communicate it to the many artists who worked at the firm made him an indispensable member of the firm.
		It has been said that the name Currier & Ives is linked with the growth of the city as well as the nation and Ives was a major part of the growth of the firm.
		Although steam presses existed, Currier and Ives felt that the impressions were inferior to the hand-pulled impressions.
	www.oldprintshop.com /artists/currier-ives-history.htm (1135 words)

	Currier and Ives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Currier and Ives was a firm headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895).
		Currier and Ives described itself as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures".
		Today, original Currier and Ives prints are much sought-after by collectors, and modern reproductions of them are popular decorations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Currier_and_Ives (205 words)

	Prints - Currier & Ives -- “printmakers To The People” by The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd.
		Currier and Ives were truly “Printmakers to the People,” and the characteristic that really distinguishes their prints is the panoramic picture that they provided of America in the nineteenth century.
		The collecting of Currier and Ives prints began in the early twentieth century, reaching a peak in the 1830’s when several important reference books were issued and Travelers Insurance Company began using Currier and Ives prints on their calendars.
		Ives issued prints that not only illustrated their times, but also that created the image which pervaded American culture, and which has come down to our day as the paradigm of the romance of America.
	focus.antiquescouncil.com /articlepage53.php (1472 words)

	The Currier & Ives Page
		Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent.
		Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes.
		Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives are laid to rest along with their families at the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
	www.geocities.com /scurrier/history.html (1889 words)

	CURRIER & IVES,
		Currier's first successful print depicted destruction from an 1835 fire that destroyed a large part of lower Manhattan.
		This lithograph was followed by the series, now known as Currier and Ives prints, devoted to contemporary subjects that ranged from the familiar to the sensational: scenes of social and domestic life, public disasters, and Indian raids.
		In 1857, Currier promoted to partnership in the firm the artist James Merritt Ives (1824–95), whom he had employed as a bookkeeper.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..cu255900.a#FWNE.fw..cu255900.a (408 words)

	James ives - Currier & Ives. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Currier and Ives Foundation A nice site set up by later-generation relatives of the original Nathaniel Currier and James Ives.
		Currier met James Ives through his brother Charles’ wife’s sister and hired him on as bookkeeper.
		In 1852 Currier engaged as a bookkeeper James Merrit Ives, The firm prospered until the deaths of Currier in 1888 and James Ives seven years later.
	finearea.com /fnae/james-ives.htm (213 words)

	Currier & Ives
		Currier had begun the business in 1835, but it wasn't until Ives joined him as a partner in 1857 that the firm became recognized for the artistry in its scenes of everyday American life, including horse-drawn carriages and sleighs, yachts, trains, and nature scenes, especially popular as Christmas cards.
		Currier and Ives were succeeded by their sons, who ran the business until it was liquidated in 1907.
		Ives was originally hired to be Currier's bookkeeper, but his art education led him to dabble in producing the drawings and paintings himself.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0771947.html (155 words)

	AHPCS - FAQs about Currier & Ives
		Currier and Ives did issue some of their prints uncolored, and since very few reproductions are uncolored, this is a good clue that one has an original.
		A Currier and Ives restrike is a print made from the original stone, but issued after Currier and Ives were no longer in business.
		Currier and Ives were printmakers; they were not artists nor did they make any trays, plates, mugs, calendars, or similar items.
	www.ahpcs.org /Library/curquer.htm (1769 words)

	In the News...
		Currier and Ives: An American Panorama will showcase some of Currier and Ives' most popular subjects, including American scenic wonders; leisure pastimes such as hunting, yachting and horse racing; portraits of famous personalities; heroic activities such as firefighting; westward expansion; and important moments in history.
		Currier had several business partners over the years, but it was James Merritt Ives who encouraged production of the prints that are now identified with the firm – idealized pictures of the daily experiences of middle class American life in the 19th century.
		Currier and Ives prints were among the household decorations considered appropriate for a proper home by Catharine Esther Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, authors of American Woman's Home (1869): "The great value of pictures for the home would be, after all, in their sentiment.
	www.springfieldmuseums.org /news/index.php?page_function=details&news_id=24 (810 words)

	Currier and Ives
		The Currier and Ives firm was in the business of producing lithographed prints intended to be sold to the general public for framing and display in the home or at work.
		Currier and Ives used all sorts of sources for their prints, including staff artists who are unknown today, as well as a group of more famous artists such as Louis Maurer, Thomas Worth, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Frances ('Fanny') Flora Bond Palmer, George H. Durrie, Napoleon Sarony, Charles Parsons, and J. Butterworth.
		Currier and Ives reused many of their images over and over, sometimes with the same title and sometimes with a changed title.
	www.philaprintshop.com /currhist.html (1184 words)

	CURRIER & IVES - AMERICA’S PRINTMAKERS
		Currier was not a man to ignore endeavors that proved successful.
		Ives proved so talented as an artist and businessman he was made partner in the firm within five years.
		Currier and Ives recognized men's attraction toward danger and sport.
	www.antiquetalk.com /column115.htm (452 words)

	The Charm of Currier & Ives - Art History
		Currier was moderately successful with his new business, producing music and architectural prints as well as portraits and memorials.
		Ives was the brother-in-law of Currier’s brother and was highly recommended.
		Currier & Ives considered themselves to be printers for the people and priced their prints accordingly.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art47892.asp (814 words)

	CBS News \| Currier & Ives Exhibit Showcases Idealism
		But in one of the country's largest collections of Currier and Ives lithographs, the company's journalistic beginnings blend into its long-term mission of bringing fine art and American idealism to the country's middle-class.
		The company's founders, Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives, insisted that their productions were works of fine art, and had each of the prints hand-painted by the company's pool of artists.
		And in the West, Currier and Ives envisioned a wild, open land to be tamed.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/11/28/ap/entertainment/mainD8E5K5TO4.shtml (684 words)

	Albion College Stockwell-Mudd Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Currier and Ives are best known for scenes such as sleigh rides to grandmother's house, portraits of historical figures, and the heroics of New York firefighters, but not all their prints evoked this bucolic sensibility.
		Previous to the Emancipation Proclamation, Currier and Ives generally depicted fls as individuals content with their lives and position in society; they were often pictured in the background of idyllic plantation images.
		The political images published by Currier and Ives during this time were vicious attacks against the character and intelligence of fls, depicting them as unsupportive and disobliging of the political figures who sought to free them, such as Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, and Senator Charles Sumner (226).
	www.albion.edu /library/specialcollections/currier&ives.asp (7917 words)

	Currier and Ives Prints, Digital Picture Printing & Frames, Digital Picture Frames, Custom Picture Framing, Digital ...
		In 1840, Nathaniel Currier met and married Eliza Farnsworth, and in 1841 his son Edward West Currier was born.
		In 1852, Nathaniel Currier was introduced to James Merritt Ives.
		Ives was a gregarious and portly man born in New York in 1824.
	www.digital-picture-printing-frames.com /currier_and_ives_print.htm (536 words)

	Currier and Ives Summary
		Currier retired in 1888, Ives a few years later; but the firm was carried on by their sons and flourished until 1907.
		Currier and Ives avoided controversial subjects, although there was at least one print showing the branding of slaves prior to embarkation from Africa.
		Currier and Ives was a firm headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895).
	www.bookrags.com /Currier_and_Ives (787 words)

	Currier & Ives
		From 1834 to 1907 the firm of Currier and Ives provided for the American people a pictorial history of their country's growth from an agricultural society to an industrialized one.
		On the War-Path." New York: Currier and Ives, 1862.
		A rare large folio of Currier and Ives' famous scene of the fall of Richmond.
	www.philaprintshop.com /currier.html (791 words)

	Currier and Ives Art Prints
		Currier and Ives, firm of American lithographers, active during the 19th century.
		This lithograph was followed by the series, now known as Currier and Ives prints, devoted to contemporary subjects that ranged from the familiar to the sensational: scenes of social and domestic life, public disasters, and raids by Native Americans.
		In 1857, Currier promoted to partnership in the firm the artist James Merritt Ives (1824-95), whom he had employed as a bookkeeper.
	www.victoriana.com /library/currier.htm (162 words)

	Currier & Ives — Infoplease.com
		Currier and Ives, American lithographers and print publishers, who produced highly popular hand-colored prints of contemporary scenes and events in American life.
		Both Currier's and Ives's sons followed their fathers in the business, which was eventually liquidated in 1907.
		Currier & Ives scene in the oval remains.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0814311.html (187 words)

	Currier & Ives
		Currier and Ives: American (Nathaniel Currier 1813-1888) and (James Merit Ives 1824-1895) In over 7,000 lithographic pictures and reproductions which sold by tens of millions, the firm of Nathaniel Currier and James Merit Ives documented American life in the middle and late 19th century.
		Currier and Ives’s prints were always collaborative efforts (they worked together).
		Currier and Ives prints showed pleasant domestic life, trains, boat, animals or natural disasters.
	www.lospaseos.mhu.k12.ca.us /5thweb/artist/currier.htm (151 words)

	currier ives collectibles
		The Road Winter Currier and Ives Pie Plate One of the most attractive of the winter scenes, The Road-Winter, portrays...
		Currier And Ives [1866 - 1934] Canadian artwork online artwork and news articles and exhibition history as well as artwork in museum collections.
		Currier and Ives - a name synonymous with 19th Century Americana.
	www.auctions-andmore.com /articles/57/currier-ives-collectibles.html (339 words)

	Currier & Ives
		“Currier & Ives” was the name used by a New York printmaking firm from 1857 until 1907.
		Neither Currier nor Ives was an artist of any note; all the prints they published were drawn and lithographed by others.
		Nathaniel Currier was born on March 27, 1813, in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_artists/85960 (487 words)

	Antique prints of Currier & Ives List
		Certainly the most famous American printmakers of the 19th century are Currier and Ives.
		Today Currier and Ives prints are a prized, if somewhat idealized, vision of 19th century America.
		Tracing the growth of the country from an agricultural to an industrialized economy, and addressing almost all facets of life and society, Currier and Ives prints offer a pictorial record of the young nation that cannot be surpassed.
	www.vintagemaps.com /catalog/antique_prints_of_currier___ives_169518_products.htm (147 words)

	Currier & Ives ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Currier and Ives, The Miseries of a Bachelor, 19th century
		Currier and Ives, On the Coast of California., 19th century
		Currier and Ives, The Children in the Wood, 19th century
	wwar.com /masters/c/currier_&_ives.html (1504 words)

	Website design, search engine marketing & optimisation, accessibility, Telford, Shropshire
		Currier Limited is a search engine marketing, optimisation and accessible website design company based in Shifnal near Telford, Shropshire, UK.
		Currier Limited, web site designers based near Telford, Shropshire are pleased to announce their new Small Business Website Package.
		Currier Limited is pleased to announce the re-launch of the website for luxury Staffordshire hotel, The Moat House in Acton Trussell, seven years after designing its original site.
	www.currier.co.uk (253 words)

	Currier and Ives
		The book, published by Smithsonian Institution Press, examines the way the publishing company of Nathaniel Currier and his partner James Ives changed the landscape of visual images in the mid-1800’s, selling millions of copies of lithographs that adorned countless homes and even barns.
		The Currier and Ives catalog included more than 7,000 works by dozens of artists, accounting for 95 percent of all lithographs sold across the country.
		"Currier and Ives created a historical record of 19th century America, but not as conscious historians," said LeBeau.
	www.creighton.edu /PubRel/newsrel/10052001_lebeau.html (443 words)

	Currier & Ives Online Gallery
		The printmaking firm of Currier and Ives produced some of the most iconic and popular American art of the 19th century.
		The company, headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895), specialized in publishing hand colored lithographic prints that were sold inexpensively to the growing American middle class.
		This gallery features a selection of images from Currier & Ives, including images of original prints as well as of later reproductions that are in the public domain.
	currierandives.net (78 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Currier and Ives Prints
		The lithography firm of Currier and Ives was founded in 1834 by Nathaniel Currier and based in New York.
		They were extremely prolific and highly successful, producing almost 7,500 different separately issued art prints during the 19th Century, and became known as the "Printmakers to the American People." Dozens of American artists in the Mid 19th Century painted primarily for lithographic reproduction by Currier and Ives and other firms.
		Currier and Ives prints generally portrayed the American landscape, scenery and landmarks, including the westward expansion, as well as daily life in both urban and rural settings.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/americana/currierives.html (209 words)

	Currier and Ives Pink at Quiet Side Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Pink Currier + Ives 5 ½’’ Fruit or Desert Bowl Made by Royal China this wonderful vintage pink Currier and Ives 5 5/8" berry or desert bowl pictures the scene The Old Farm Gate.
		Pink Currier + Ives 6’’ Saucer Made by Royal China this wonderful vintage pink Currier and Ives 6 1/8" saucer pictures the scene Low Water in the Mississippi.
		Made by Royal China this wonderful vintage pink Currier and Ives bread plate pictures a summer cottage scene.
	www.tias.com /5620/InventoryPage/1900570/1.html (601 words)

	Welcome to Presser Online
		Currier has also been a frequent recipient of residency fellowships such as at the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy and the Camargo Foundation in France.
		And while Currier's music is often wildly virtuosic it never seems overcrowded with notes, as so much work by the so-called 'maximalists' does...
		Ultimately, Currier is an independent, with no seeming allegiance to any creed but the most valuable one of all - that of creating a succinct, personal, well-crafted music to the best of his abilityâ¦"
	www.presser.com /Composers/info.cfm?Name=NATHANCURRIER (930 words)

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