Tennessee Art History
with an emphasis on representational art
Resource Library essays listed by author name in alphabetical order, followed by articles:
A Century of Progress: 20th Century Painting in Tennessee, by Celia Walker
Resource Library does not contain additional articles or essays dedicated specifically to Tennessee art. As of February 7, 2012 Resource Library does contain 233 pages including the state's name.
Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
Other online information:
Artists from Tennessee in Wikipedia
Encyclopedia of History and Culture from Tennessee Historical Society
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:
A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, West, Carroll Van, and Margaret Duncan Binnicker, eds. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
Art of Tennessee., Caldwell, Benjamin H., Jr., Robert Hicks, and Mark W. Scala, comps. Nashville: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2003.
Art & Furniture of East Tennessee: The Inagural Exhibit of the Museum of East Tennessee History, By Namuni Hale.Young, East Tennessee Historical Society, East Tennessee Historical Society. Published by East Tennessee Historical Society, 1997. ISBN 0941199118, 9780941199117. 121 pages
The Arts of East Tennessee in the Nineteenth Century, By Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville Dulin Gallery of Art, Dulin Gallery of Art, East Tennessee Historical Society, East Tennessee Historical Society. Published by , 1971. 36 pages
Portraits in Tennessee Painted Before 1866, By National Society of the Colonial Dames of America Tennessee. Portrait Committee, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee, Eleanor Fleming Morrissey, Portrait Committee, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Tennessee. Published by National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Tennesee, 1964. 147 pages
Tennessee Painting--the Past, By Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Tennessee Fine Arts Center. Published by Tennessee Fine Arts Center, 1960. 20 pages. Google Books says: "Catalog of an exhibition held May 22-July 31, 1960, at the Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville."
Articles:
Cogswell, Robert. "A Selected Bibliography of Tennessee Folk Arts". Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, 1984 vol.50 (4): 142-45.
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