New Hampshire Representational Art History
Resource Library essays listed by author name in alphabetical order, followed by articles:
The Dublin Colony by Barbara Ball Buff
New Hampshire State House Art Collection
Northeast Art: 20-21st Century Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Painting (for years 1997-2000 also includes Southeast and Southern American Paintings)
Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:
New Hampshire State House Art Collection
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
University of New Hampshire Art Gallery
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College
Other online sources:
Cornish artists' colony from AskArt
Cornish Art Colony by Lisa Mausolf
Cornish Art Colony from cornishartcolony.com
History of White Mountain Art by John J. Henderson
MacDowell Art Colony from AskArt
North Conway Art Colony in White Mountain Art from Wikipedia
White Mountains Artists by Lonnie Dunbier and Teta Collins, with a list of artists
White Mountain art, from Wikipedia
TFAO's
Distinguished
Artists catalogue provides online
access to biographical information for artists associated with this state.
Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and
essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history
and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library
articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not
listed on this page.
Books:
Hands That Built New Hampshire - The Story Of Granite State Craftsmen Past And Present, by Francis P. Murphy. 336 pages. Publisher: Murphy Press (March 15, 2007). ISBN-10: 1406766577. ISBN-13: 978-1406766578
Consuming Views: Art and Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900, by Donna Garvin (Editor). 112 pages. Publisher: NHHS (November 30, 2006). ISBN-10: 1584656131. ISBN-13: 978-1584656135. Product Description: "The White Mountains, solid and ageless peaks of granite, rise up across the landscape of northern New Hampshire. Their natural beauty has inspired visitors to the state for centuries. Generations of visitors to the mountains have found something new and meaningful for themselves and for the culture in which they live. By the middle of the nineteenth century the region's magnificent and varied scenery attracted tourists and artists from around the country as well as from Europe. More than four hundred artists are known to have painted White Mountain scenes before 1900. Artists who visited New Hampshire during the second half of the nineteenth century interpreted White Mountain scenery in ways designed to appeal to and attract tourists and to serve as souvenirs of their mountain visits. Hotel owners encouraged painters to work and to take up residence in the White Mountain hotels. Paintings enriched the tourists' sensibilities and enhanced an appreciation of the landscape, even as a growing middle class was gaining cultural as well as economic power. Merchants, bankers, and attorneys, along with their families, embraced gentility by acquiring, displaying, and contemplating paintings. For some these paintings remained mere symbols of their own rising economic status. For others these objects and images were of more spiritual than economic value. Each painting included in this book presents a compelling and unique perspective of a White Mountain locale. All thirty-seven paintings featured are reproduced in full color. The artworks are organized geographically, following routes nineteenth century travelers took while touring the White Mountains. The reader will be able to explore the key sites that attracted tourists and inspired artists, beginning and ending with a visit to North Conway, home of the earliest White Mountain artists' community. Thirty-three authors from many different disciplines have contributed to this publication. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives, they reveal the story and significance of White Mountain scenery, of the nineteenth-century artists who depicted it, and of the people (consumers) who acquired, owned, and cherished White Mountain art. (text courtesy of Amazon.com)
Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New
Hampshire, By Robert L. McGrath. Published by Syracuse
University Press, 2000. ISBN 
081560663X,
9780815606635. 216 pages. "A survey of the topographic and metaphoric
landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains through the artistic and tourist
life of the region as it appears in paintings and illustrations. Extending
from the late-18th to the late-20th century, it includes a large collection
of pictorial works." (text and front cover image courtesy of Google
Books)
Women Artists in the White Mountains, 1840-1940: Selected Works, By Frances Sheffield MacIntyre, Published by s.n.], 1990. 16 pages "Exhibition and catalogue arranged and written by Frances S. MacIntyre." (text courtesy of Google Books)
By Good Hands: New Hampshire Folk Art, by Robert M. Doty. 22 pages. Publisher: University Press of New England (August 1989). ISBN-10: 087451973X. ISBN-13: 978-0874519730
"A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven": Artists in the White Mountains 1830-1930, By Robert L. McGrath, Barbara J. MacAdam, Hood Museum of Art. Published by Distributed by University Press of New England, 1988. ISBN 0944722024, 9780944722022. 99 pages
The Cornish Colony: Expressions of Attachment to Place, 1885-1915, By Deborah Elizabeth Van Buren. Published by George Washington University, 1987. 255 pages
A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin, by Durham: University of New Hampshire Art Gallery. Publisher: Durham: University of New Hampshi (1985). ASIN: B000PSV5U6
New Hampshire Scenery: A Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes, By Catherine H. Campbell, Marcia Schmidt Blaine, New Hampshire Historical Society. Photographs by Marcia Schmidt Blaine. Published by Published for the New Hampshire Historical Society by Phoenix Pub., 1985. ISBN 091465912X, 9780914659129. 249 pages
A Stern and Lovely Scene: A Visual History of the Isles of Shoals, By University of New Hampshire University Art Galleries. Published by University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, 1978. 143 pages
Sixty Years' Memories of Art and Artists, By Benjamin Champney. Published by Garland Pub., 1977. ISBN 0824022440, 9780824022440. 191 pages. "Reprint of the 1900 ed. published by The News Print., Wallace & Andrews, Woburn, Mass" (text courtesy of Google Books)
Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting of the White Mountains, Sept. 22 - Sept. 26, 1976 at the White Mountain School, Littleton, New Hampshire. Published by the White Mountain School,, 1976
The Grand Monadnock: A Literary, Artistic & Social History An Exhibition at the Louise E. Thorne Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, N.H. from June 23 to August 3, 1974, in Cooperation with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, By Louise E. Thorne Art Gallery, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Louise E. Thorne Art Gallery. Published by Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, 1974. 48 pages
The Great Bay: A Visual History; April 10th-May 18th, 1970; Scudder Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, By New Hampshire University. Paul Creative Arts Center. Published by Scudder Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center,, 1970, 39 pages
Painting in the White Mountains, 1820-1900: The Bicentennial of Tamworth, New Hampshire, 1766-1966., Published by s.n, 1966. 16 pages
A Century of Art in the White Mountains: Exhibition The North Conway Library Association, July 11 to 17, 1965, Published by North Conway Library Association, 1965. 31 pages
Artists in the White Mountains. An Exhibition Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of "The Old Man of the Mountains.", By Currier Gallery of Art, Published by Currier Gallery of Art., 1955. 16 pages. "Exhibition held July 15-September 15, 1955" .( text courtesy of Google Books)
Dublin Days, Old and New; New Hampshire Fact and Fancy, By Henry Darracott Allison. Published by Exposition Press, 1952. 156 pages
Chronicles of the White Mountains, By Frederick Wilkinson Kilbourne. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 433 pages. Google Books offers a Full View of this book.
Articles:
Maureen Ahern & Pam Russell, "The Life & TImes of the Dublin Art Colony" American Art Review, March-April 2008 (Volume XX, Number 2)
Roger E. Belson and John J. Henderson: " Art & Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900" American Art Review March-April 2007 (Volume XIX, Number 2)
Barbara J. MacAdam: "Drawings & Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art" American Art Review March-April 2005 (Volume XVII, Number 2)
Bob Mueller & Alma Gilbert-Smith: "Coming Home: The Cornish Art Colony" American Art Review July-August 2006 (Volume XVIII, Number 4)
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