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Fitz Henry Lane

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Fitz Henry Lane (1804 - 1865) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Fitz Lane is known for Marine, landscape, genre paintings, graphics.

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 Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts with the name of Nathaniel Rogers Lane, Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane became one of America's preeminent marine painters.  During his lifetime, he was described as the "country's second-greatest marine painter, but he faded in renown from about 1870 until the re-emergence of interest in American painting in the 1930s." (Dunlap)

Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane was crippled since childhood and walked with crutches, a condition long attributed to childhood disease.  Latest research though has shown that disease was a remote and unlikely culprit for Lane's loss of mobility, the most plausible of possibilities being the ingestion of the neurotoxin Datura stramonium.(see Craig, pages 17 & 18).

As an artist, he had no formal training but early learned printmaking as he worked for Pendleton's Lithography shop in Boston doing naval architecture drafts and topographical views of Boston and its harbor.  Lane's first  lithograph produced fo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7056 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Fitz Henry Lane

   Publications  Book References:  160
Magazine References:  25

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25 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Fitz Henry Lane
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques Rediscovering Fitz Henry Lane's View of Coffin's Beach on Cape Ann July 2006 Quinn, Karen E. Yes
Fine Art Connoisseur Fitz Henry Lane: An Affinity for the Sea April 2006 Craig, James Yes
American Art Review Envisioning New England December 2004 Grinnell & Hunter Yes
The Magazine Antiques The John Wilmerding Collection September 2004 Anderson, Nancy K Yes
The Magazine Antiques The Westervelt Warner Museum August 2004 Kelly, Franklin Yes
ARTnews National News July 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
American Artist Painting from Sea to Shining Sea June 2004 Doherty, M Stephen No
American Art Review American Masters: The John Wilmerdi April 2004 Kelly, Franklin Yes
Art & Antiques Books-Every Picture Tells a Story November 2003 Kearns, Megan Yes
American Art Review Re-envisioning Maritime Art at the October 2003 Finamore, Daniel Yes
American Art Review Americana from the US Department of April 2003 Fairbanks and Serfaty Yes
Art & Antiques A Beacon for Antiques May 2001 Fox, Marion Laffey Yes
American Art Review The Farnsworth Art Museum June 2000 Gerdts, William (essays) etc. Yes
American Art Review Portland Museum of Art June 2000 Levesque, Kristen Yes
American Artist An Overview of Marine Art April 2000 Jinishian, J. Russell Yes
American Artist Sacred Scenery March 2000 Skrapits, Joseph C. Yes
American Art Review New Britain Museum of American Art April 1999 Buckley, Laurene Yes
Art & Auction Eye on American October 1997 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
American Art Review Bruce Museum June 1997 Hall-Duncan, Nancy Yes
Art & Antiques Top 100 Treasures March 1997 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
Art & Antiques Art of the High Seas November 1996 Kagen, Dick Yes
ARTnews art market December 1995 Editors, Art News Yes
Art & Auction This Month September 1995 Editors, Art & Auction No
The Magazine Antiques Newport of 19th Century April 1995 Burns, Charles J Yes
American Art Review An Eye for Maine August 1994 Hoopes, Donelson Yes
160 Book References for Fitz Henry Lane
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Dunlap, Sarah and Stephanie Buck Fitz Henry Lane: Family and Friends 0 Yes
2006 Craig, James A. Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage Through Nineteenth Century America 320 Yes
2006 The Vose Family Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors A Compendium of Favorite Articles from the First Twelve Issues 65 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Kelly, Franklin American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
2003 Fairbanks and Serfaty Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, US Department of State
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
2002 Deinard, Jenny How to Draw Massachusett's Sights and Symbols 0 Yes
2002 Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 194 Yes
2002 Vose, Marcia L. (editor) Vose Art Notes Tenth Anniversary Issue Art and Collecting in America: An Illustrated Timeline 37 Yes
2002 Wilton, Andrew; Tim Barringer American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1998 Gerdts, William H (Intro) Twelve American Masterpieces
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1996 Yaeger, Bert D The Hudson River School American Landscape Artists 80 Yes
1995 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-75 329 Yes
1994 Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815 628 No
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Realism 240 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1994 Wilmerding, John The Artist's Mount Desert American Painters on the Maine Coast 195 Yes
1993 Miller, Davd C (editor) American Iconology 344 No
1993 Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor
(Exhibition catalog)		 266 Yes
1992 Cash, Sarah American Art Paintings from the Amon Carter Museum 59 Yes
1992 Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor) American Icons 390 No
1992 Kammen, Michael Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture 192 No
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Santa Barbara Museum of Art America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1991 Wilmerding, John American Views Essays on American Art 357 Yes
1991 Wilson, John Masterpieces of American Painting 34 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Counterpoint Two Centuries of American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1990 Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1990 Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown Sport in Art From American Museums
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1990 Tyler, Ron American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists 208 Yes
1989 Nelson, Harold B Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape 111 Yes
1989 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Painting 64 Yes
1989 Wilmerding, John American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 330 Yes
1988 Berry-Hill Galleries American Paintings V 1988 180 Yes
1988 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings 1160 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor) Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts 328 Yes
1988 Scully, Vincent New World Visions of Household Gods and Sacred Places American Art, 1650-1914 183 Yes
1988 Susan Sheehan Inc American Masterworks on Paper 1800-1960 104 No
1988 Wilmerding, John Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane
(Exhibition catalog)		 163 Yes
1988 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art 208 Yes
1987 Neff, Terry (editor) A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art 300 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Muhlert, Jan K (intro) American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum 128 Yes
1986 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 148 Yes
1986 Novak, Barbara Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection 326 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Salinger, Margaretta Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Driscoll, John /J Howat John Frederick Kensett An American Master
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists 288 No
1984 Hirschl & Adler Galleries The Art of Collecting
(Exhibition catalog)		 65 Yes
1984 Johns, Elizabeth; William Elder III, Josephine Withers, et all Maryland: 350 Years of Art & Architecture (University of Maryland Architecture Department Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 248 No
1984 Reps, John W Views and Viewmakers of Urban America, 1825-1925 570 Yes
1984 Troyen, Carol/Pamela Tabbaa The Great Boston Collectors Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts 151 Yes
1984 Walker, John National Gallery of Art, Washington New and Revised Edition
(Exhibition catalog)		 606 Yes
1983 Brown, Milton W 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C 240 Yes
1983 Faison, S Lane The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 1983 Yes
1983 Ministere de la Culture Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 378 Yes
1983 Murphy, Frank (Essay) The Book of Nature: American Painters & the Natural Sublime Hudson River Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1983 Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays) A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 351 Yes
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1982 Faison, S Lane Jr The Art Museums of New England 490 No
1982 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 106 Yes
1982 Wolf, Bryan Jay Romantic Re-Vision Culture and Consciousness in 19th-Century Painting 272 No
1981 Canaday, John Mainstreams of Modern Art (2nd Edition) 484 Yes
1981 Hirschl & Adler Galleries America in Print 1796-1941
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Williams, William James A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art 256 Yes
1981 Wilmerding, John; Linda Ayres, Earl Powell An American Perspective: Nineteenth Century Art From the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz
(Exhibition catalog)		 180 Yes
1980 Archibald, E H H Dictionary of Sea Painters 455 Yes
1980 Galleries, Hirschl and Adler American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980 112 Yes
1980 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875 323 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1980 Troyen, Carol The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 204 Yes
1980 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art 180 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Norman, Geraldine Nineteenth-Century Painters and Painting/A Dictionary 240 Yes
1977 Rhode Island School of Design American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930 241 No
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776 208 Yes
1976 McShine, Kynaston The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 178 Yes
1976 Richardson, Edgar P American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd
(Exhibition catalog)		 247 Yes
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C 200 Jahre Amerikanische Malerei 1776-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1976 Virginia Museum American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 Yes
1975 Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky The Heritage of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 237 Yes
1975 Stein, Roger B Seascape and the American Imagination
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1974 Boyle, Richard American Impressionism 238 Yes
1974 Davidson, Abraham A The Story of American Painting 168 Yes
1974 Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay) 19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1973 Bennett, Ian A History of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 McClanathan, Richard Art in America A Brief History 216 Yes
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1972 Brown University To Look on Nature European and American Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 265 No
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)		 188 No
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1972 Taylor, Joshua National Parks and the American Landscape 141 Yes
1971 Baigell, Mathew A History of American Painting 288 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Gerdts, William H 19th Century American Painting From the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1971 Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black What Is American in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1971 Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 Yes
1971 Wilmerding, John Fitz Hugh Lane 203 Yes
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1970 Hawes, Louis The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 No
1970 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Forty Masterworks of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 57 Yes
1970 Howat, John K (others) 19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1970 Lynes, Russell The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America 514 No
1970 Maytham, Thomas N Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1970 Sullivan, Max (Foreward); Philip Chadwick Foster Smith American Ship Portraits & Marine Painting: Everson Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1969 Brockton Art Center Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums 48 No
1969 Hirschl & Adler Galleries The American Scene A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 74 Yes
1969 Novak, Barbara American Painting of the Nineteenth Century 350 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Boston University Boston Painters 1720-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 70 No
1968 Brewington, M V and Dorothy The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum 530 Yes
1968 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Twenty-Five American Masterpieces
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 Yes
1968 McLanathan, Richard The American Tradition in the Arts 492 No
1968 Public Education Association The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1968 Wilmerding, John History of American Marine Painting 179 Yes
1968 Wilmerding, John American Marine Painting (2nd Edition) 204 Yes
1967 Kennedy Galleries Reality, Romanticism, Realism Two Centuries of American Painting 60 No
1967 Wilmerding, John Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865 American Marine Painter 100 No
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1965 Everson Museum of Art American Painting from 1830 63 Yes
1964 Hoopes, Donelson F (Introduction); August Heckscher, (Foreward) Four Centuries of American Masterpieces (Exhibition: The Gallery at the Better Living Center, May22-October 18, 1964)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1963 Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953 178 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1961 Hamilton (Canada) Art Gallery American Realists
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 Baur, John I H La Pittura Americana Dell' Ottocento 58 No
1953 Baur, John I H American Painting in the 19th Cent Main Trends and Movements 60 No
1953 Brooklyn, Museum American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection 48 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1947 Mugridge, Donald H An Album of American Battle Art 1755-1918 319 No
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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