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Sydney Mortimer Laurence

Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865 - 1940) was active/lived in New York, Alaska, California.  Sydney Laurence is known for Alaskan landscape painting-Indian figure.

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Known for his dramatic landscape paintings of Alaska, Sydney Laurence was one of the first professionally trained artists to live in the Alaska Territory. His trademark subject was Mt. McKinley.

Laurence was in the mainstream of a large group of young artists searching for a new way to paint landscape. Reacting against the theatrical, detailed and dramatic paintings of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and others, Laurence and his colleagues were attracted to the more subdued tonalist style and plein-air naturalism of Camille Corot and his fellow Barbizon School painters. Laurence and many of his peers were also influenced by the more 'radical' work of the French Impressionists, a movement that flourished from 1880 to 1915.

Sydney Laurence's early work places him with American painters whose work embodied tonalism and/or impressionism such as Henry Ward Ranger, Dwight Tyron, John Francis Murphy and George Inness. However, responding to the diverse landscapes he encountered   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 24477 characters.]  Artist bio

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Research resources

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Facts about Sydney Mortimer Laurence

   Publications  Book References:  41
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Sydney Mortimer Laurence
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Plein Air Magazine Sydney Laurence May 2005 Woodward, Kesler Yes
41 Book References for Sydney Mortimer Laurence
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2006 Benezit, E Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes) 0 No
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
2003 Tierney, Curtis (editor) Recounting the Old West II: Important Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper 71 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2002 Quasha, Jennifer How to Draw Alaska's Sights and Symbols 0 Yes
2001 Harmon, Kitty; Jonathan Raban The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History 144 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator) Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles 223 Yes
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1997 Pennington, Estill Curtis Frontier Sublime Alaskan Art from the Juneau
(Exhibition catalog)
112 Yes
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1995 Stern, Jean Romance of the Bells: The California Missions in Art
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Woodward, Kesler E Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum 160 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1992 Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)
56 Yes
1992 Trip, Dode; Sherburne Cook Jr. Washington State Artists 1850-1950 185 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Samuels, Peggy (others) Techniques of the Artists of the American West 252 Yes
1990 Woodward, Kesler E Sydney Laurence Painter of the North
(Exhibition catalog)
140 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Rockwell Museum American Western Art 84 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 McCall, Dewitt Clinton III California Artists 1935-1956 212 Yes
1981 Stern, Jean Western Masters: A Comprehensive Exhibition Petersen Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
124 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1974 Laurence, Jeanne My Life with Sydney Laurence 98 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1966 Smithsonian Institution American Landscape A Changing Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)
52 No
1940 IBM Collection Contemporary Art of the U S (Golden Gate Exposition1940)
(Exhibition catalog)
112 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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