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Seeing the bold, confident handling with which Frank Duveneck (1848—1919) infuses life into his subjects can be breathtaking. This is the first major publication in more than 30 years devoted to Duveneck, one of the most influential and widely respected late-nineteenth century American artists. Beloved to his students, Duveneck was lauded by many Gilded Age luminaries such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Henry James. Yet a century after his death, he is largely known only for a single, brilliant painting, The Whistling Boy. By contextualizing his work in the artistic, cultural and social milieus of the time, this publication offers diverse perspectives on Duveneck’s life, work, subjects and reputation. The essays span his beginnings as a painter of dark realism to his later impressionistic work and examine his significance as a printmaker and draftsman. The lavishly illustrated volume includes a chronology and selected bibliography.
Price: $54.95
Pages: 280
Publisher: D Giles Limited
Imprint: GILES
Publication Date:
17 November 2020
Trim Size: 11.00 X 9.50 in
ISBN: 9781911282648
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
ART / Individual Artists / Essays, ART / American / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
"A thorough and comprehensive portrait of an overlooked American artist"—Maine Antique Digest
"Fascinating"—Michael Clawson, American Fine Art Magazine/i>
"Upends many common misconceptions and reveals the artist’s accomplishments across subjects and media"—Antiques and the Arts Weekly
Julie Aronson is curator of American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Cincinnati Art Museum. Barbara Gallati is curator emerita of American Art, Brooklyn Museum. Sarah Burns is Ruth N. Halls Professor, Department of Art History, Indiana University. André Dombrowski is associate professor, History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth A. Simmons is curatorial research assistant, Cincinnati Art Museum. Kristin L. Spangenberg is curator of Prints, Cincinnati Art Museum. Colm Tóibín is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet, and currenlty Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. He is the author of, most recently, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, (2018) and Brooklyn (2009), and co-author of Henry James and American Painting, (2017).
Director’s Foreword by Cameron Kitchin; Acknowledgments by Julie Aronson
Introduction by Barbara Gallati
Essay 1: Julie Aronson, Reckoning with Duveneck’s Reputation
Essay 2: André Dombrowski, “Everything is Moist:” Frank Duveneck and Munich’s Painterly Realism
Essay 3: Sarah Burns, A Dangerous Class of Painting: Ugliness, Masculinity, and the Munich Style in Gilded Age America
Essay 4: Colm Toíbín, Frank Duveneck and Henry James
Essay 5: Kristin Spangenberg, Duveneck as Printmaker
Essay 6: Elizabeth Simmons, Discovering Frank Duveneck’s Drawings
Main Catalogue: 130 Plates of artworks
Notes
Brief captions
Illustrated Chronology, by Elizabeth Simmons
Selected Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index