{"product_id":"the-artists-mount-desert-american-painters-on-the-maine-coast-9780691034584","title":"The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a panoramic narrative John Wilmerding has brought together individual studies of the artists who painted Mount Desert Island off the Maine coast in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wilmerding demonstrates that Mount Desert has had an enduring appeal for artists and visitors  much like other great sites of national geography  such as Yosemite  Yellowstone  and Niagara Falls. This coastal region of the northeast captured the imaginations of several generations of American painters  and each generation attached its own meaning to the island. These changing meanings reveal both the history of American landscape painting as well as cultural concerns of each era. As Wilmerding states  \"Part of the islands continuing allure is that a fixed point of geography can inspire such diverse visual responses and stylistic treatments as the romantic realism of the early Hudson River painters  the crystalline luminism of artists in the middle of the nineteenth century  the variants of Impressionism practiced at centurys end  and the new modes of representation in the twentieth  approaching aspects of abstraction.\"  The figures most central to this chronology are the pioneers  Thomas Doughty  Alvan Fisher  and Thomas Cole  who generalized and romanticized nature in their visits of the 1830s and 1840s  Fitz Hugh Lane in the 1850s  and Frederic Edwin Church in the 1850s and 1860s. Each drew and painted extensively at Mount Desert. In particular  they recorded the northern sunsets in forms that made Americans give serious thought to the significance of their countrys geography and its destiny. Other artists  among them William Stanley Haseltine  Sanford Gifford  John Marin  Marsden Hartley  and  more recently  Richard Estes  continued to come to Mount Desert and to find in its light  air  and rock formations the kind of scenery that inspired a rich diversity of visual expressions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646875361333,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691034583","price":150.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691034584.jpg?v=1781679410","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-artists-mount-desert-american-painters-on-the-maine-coast-9780691034584","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}