First Impressions Nineteenth-Century American Master Prints
Alicia G. Longwell
Published by GILES in association with the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y.
Publish Date — September 2010 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 96 pages, 250 x 210 mm (8¼ x 10 in.), portrait
Illustrations — 75 colour and 11 b & w illustrations
Hardback price — UK£24.95 / US$39.95
ISBN — 1-904832-75-X
ISBN — 978-1-904832-75-1
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Press Release — Nineteenth-Century American Prints
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Focuses on the American Painter-Etcher movement of the 1880s, featuring over 70 works from the Parrish Art Museum collection
Illuminates the important contributions the Parrish Collection makes to the understanding and appreciation of American art.
About the Book
First Impressions features over 70 works by some of the leading “painter-etchers” of the 1880s including Thomas Moran and Mary Nimmo Moran, William Merritt Chase, Henry Farrer, Stephen Parrish, James D. and George H. Smillie, John Henry Twachtman, and Thomas Waterman Wood. These artists sought to imbue the traditionally rigid line of engraving with the freedom and spontaneity they expressed in their painting. The book includes some of the etching revival’s most beautiful images, notably the atmospheric landscapes of Long Island’s East End. Many of the prints in the Parrish’s collection are bon à tirer, that is, the first impression that was fully acceptable to the artist and the printer. The quality of these works evokes the moment of complete artistic collaboration shared by artist and printer, when the ‘master’ print was pulled from the press.
