Author: HOWAT, JOHN K.; JAMES BIDDLE (PREFACE); CARL CARMER (FOREWORD)
Title: The Hudson River and Its Painters
Description: New York, The Viking Press , A Studio Book. 1972, First Edition. Red cloth, 12" x 9.5". 208 pages; more than 100 color plates, the artwork of many artists. Published when conservationists were demanding attention to the pollution and other misuse and abuse of the Hudson and its surrounds: the book, a brainchild of the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference. Paintings are organized south to north from the Hudson's spill into New York Harbor to its beginning in the Adirondacks. Included are reproductions of The Hudson By Daylight map, a 19th-century panorama of the Hudson. At the back are full labels of commentary of each painting. Bibliography and Index. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Hudson River School Painters Landscape Painting American Rivers Maps John Howat Art-America -U.S. & Canada


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