Wild Exuberance (Paperback)

Caroline M. Welsh

ISBN 10: 0815608349 / ISBN 13: 9780815608349

Published by Syracuse University Press, New York, 2005

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Paperback. Early in his career, critics and collectors widely recognized that Harold Weston (1894-1972), was capturing and saying something unusual in his paintings. ""There is a young American painter,"" wrote Duncan Phillips, ""who stirs in me the hope for a re-birth on this new soil of something that was lost to the art of painting with the passing of Vincent van Gogh."" Along with 104 color and ten black-and-white plates of Weston's works compiled by his daughter, Nina Weston Foster, curator of the Harold Weston Foundation, the catalog includes essays that cover myriad aspects of Weston's life and art. The Adirondack Museum's chief curator Caroline M. Welsh explores nature and wilderness preservation as themes in twentieth-century art and places Weston in the context of his contemporaries who painted the Adirondacks. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art at the Fogg Art Museum, provides a critical analysis of Weston as a twentieth-century American modernist painter. The biographical essay by Weston's art historian granddaughter, Rebecca Foster, follows the unfolding of a career in parallel to the unfolding of a life. Weston's rich technique is explored by Stephen B. Phillips, curator at the Phillips Collection, in an in-depth analysis of the painting. Early in his career, critics and collectors widely recognized that Harold Weston (1894-1972), was capturing and saying something unusual in his paintings. With 104 color and ten black-and-white plates of Weston's works, the catalog includes essays that cover Weston's life and art. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wild Exuberance (Paperback)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815608349
• ISBN 13: 9780815608349
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This book focuses attention on Harold Weston, who should be a significant figure in the history of twentieth-century American art. The text's authors chart his artistic achievement, tracing five decades of stylistic growth, from rhapsodic expressionism to socially aware realism to nature-derived abstraction.

About the Author

Rebecca Foster is an art historian and granddaughter of Harold Weston. Caroline M. Welsh is chief curator and curator of art at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. She is the editor of Adirondack Prints and Printmakers: The Call of the Wild, also copublished by Syracuse University Press.