E Maurice BLOCH Drawings of George Caleb Bingham With A Catalogue Raisonne 1st

Description: The Drawings of George Caleb Bingham With A Catalogue Raisonne This vintage book shows wear from age and use, particularly the dust cover. Lots of photos depict cosmetic condition. THANKS FOR LOOKING! Author: BLOCH, E. Maurice Title: The Drawings of George Caleb Bingham With A Catalogue Raisonne Publication: Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1975 Hardcover. First edition. Large folio. In addition to his fame as an American painter of life on the Missouri frontier, George Caleb Bingham was also a distinguished draftsman. In this book, 183 of his drawings —all that are known to exist - are reproduced, most at full size, and some fifty for the first time. These drawings are arranged in chronological order and grouped according to the 25 paintings for which they were prepared. All reproductions are black and white. This study of Bingham's drawings is essential to fully understand him as artist. He created highly finished drawings of the figures he used in his paintings and kept them in a pattern book for repeated use. Although scholars have long realized that Bingham developed his studio compositions from these drawings, Bloch is the first to suggest that the drawings were an integral part of Bingham's painting procedure - that they were transfer or "cartoon" drawings. Bloch argues convincingly that Bingham transferred the figures with chalk directly to their positions on the surface of the can-vas, a method not known to have been used by any other American artist of the period. In his introduction, Bloch explains Bing-ham's techniques and the development of his style. The catalogue raisonné describes in detail every drawing in the collection and every painting discussed, listing the medium and dimensions of each work, its present location, the history of its ownership and exhibitions, and references. This is the first book to relate all Bing-ham's known drawings to extant and recorded paintings, showing the artist's development as a draftsman over an active forty-year career. These drawings are important not only for the light they cast on his method but also as independent works of art. This comprehensive exposition reveals a new dimension to Bingham's style that makes him unique among nineteenth-century artists.

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