Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection - Hardcover

Ferriso, Brian J.; Rorschach, Kimerly; Carr, Dawson W.; Chapin, Mary Weaver; Ishikawa, Chiyo; Junker, Patricia A.; Manchanda, Catharina; Prior, Mary Ann; Taylor, Sue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 029599522X ISBN 13: 9780295995229

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2015

Synopsis

Landscape is a subject of seemingly infinite variation and imaginative possibility. The Paul G. Allen Family Collection reveals a marked interest in innovative artists' reflections on the land and sea. The works in the collection span over four hundred years, chronicling key developments in painting and art history. This book uses the Allen Family Collection to explore the evolution of landscape painting through the ages.

The artists in the collection represent a who's who of masters of the landscape tradition. The book opens with a series of masterpieces by Jan Brueghel that serve as a starting point for understanding the historical trajectory of landscape painting, before moving on to 18th-century artists Canaletto and Moran and Impressionists such as Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Monet. Rounding out the survey are works by modern and contemporary visionaries including Max Ernst, Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper, and David Hockney. Thirty-nine paintings in all are featured in book, each accompanied by detailed essays that comprise a full discussion of the formal intellectual development of the landscape form.

About this title

Book Description:

Landscape is a subject of seemingly infinite variation and imaginative possibility and this book, using the famous but never-before-seen Paul G. Allen Family Collection as a reference, explores the evolution of landscape painting through the ages.

About the Author:

Contributions by Brian J. Ferriso, Kimerly Rorschach, Dawson W. Carr, Mary Weaver Chapin, Chiyo Ishikawa, Patricia Junker, Catharina Manchanda, Mary Ann Prior, and Sue Taylor.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 029599522X
• ISBN 13: 9780295995229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168