"In 1940, John Steuart Curry painted a scene of Herbert Hoover directing relief efforts after the Mississippi River flood of 1927 as part of a series of paintings depicting modern American history commissioned by Life magazine. In this in-depth case study, Charles Eldredge examines the story of the artist and his painting as well as the American cultural and political era in which it was made.Eldredge asks several provocative questions. ..."
"Arthur Dove's pursuit of an original language of expression made him a pioneer of American abstraction and a source for later painters. Reflections on Nature: Small Paintings by Arthur Dove, 1942-1943 features twenty-eight mixed media works on paper from the collection of the Wichita Art Museum, to whom the works were given in 1989 by the artist's son. Representing a group of more than three hundred similar sketches executed late in lif ..."
"Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings - the exquisite recesses of flowers, the southwestern hills, clouds, and bleached bones, the sculptural abstract forms painted in strong, clear colours - are beloved by critics and public alike. This book examines O'Keeffe's life and work, focusing on the quintessential American qualities of her art and her idiosyncratic way of seeing. Charles C. Eldredge begins with a discussion of O'Keeffe as an American a ..."
We Gather Together American Artists and the Harvest (Hardback) by CharlesC. Eldredge Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2022 by University Of California Press, United States, Berkerley ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38031-8, ISBN: 0-520-38031-2
"According to Marianne Doezema the original place and date of the statement are unknown; Marianne Doezema, George Bellows and Urban America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 206n59. 12 Frank Anderson Trapp, Douglas Dreishpoon ..."
"This ninth volume of Western Passages explores western American art within the context of the first four decades of the twentieth century. Decades divides the period from 1900 to 1940 into ten-year increments to investigate major artistic movements and important figures in western American art across mediums, styles, and subjects. In four wide-ranging essays, art historians examine western American art alongside concurrent events in Ame ..."
"Issued in conjunction with the traveling exhibit, it has full color plates which document not only the exhibit but the history of art in the United States."
Georgia O'Keeffe(1st Edition) American and Modern by CharlesC. Eldredge Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1993 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05576-4, ISBN: 0-300-05576-5
"Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings - the exquisite recesses of flowers, the southwestern hills, clouds, and bleached bones, the sculptural abstract forms painted in strong, clear colours - are beloved by critics and public alike. This book examines O'Keeffe's life and work, focusing on the quintessential American qualities of her art and her idiosyncratic way of seeing. Charles C. Eldredge begins with a discussion of O'Keeffe as an American a ..."
"Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940"
Pacific Parallels Artists and the Landscape in New Zealand by CharlesC. Eldredge, Jim Barr, Mary Barr Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 1991 by San Diego Museum Of Art ISBN-13: 978-0-295-97106-3, ISBN: 0-295-97106-1
The Unforgettables Expanding the History of American Art by CharlesC. Eldredge, Kirsten Pai Buick Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2022 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38555-9, ISBN: 0-520-38555-1
"Expanding the History of American Art Charles C. Eldredge. 360 philosophical content. They can be visually mesmerizing, while they also convey refined existential comment ... As quoted in Susan C. Larsen, “Charles Biederman and American ..."
The College on the Hill Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of Amherst College, 1821-1996 by Amherst College Staff Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 1996 by Amherst College Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-943184-05-0, ISBN: 0-943184-05-3
"Tales from the Easel features seventy full-color reproductions that convey the expressive, allusive powers of narrative painting. Though they range widely in subject and setting, all of the paintings gathered here are rendered in a representational, or realistic, style. Carrying moral, social, or patriotic messages, the paintings are meant to teach, enlighten, or inspire. Then again, the paintings can also tweak the very conventions tha ..."