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Thomas Nast

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Thomas Nast (1840 - 1902) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Ecuador.  Thomas Nast is known for Editorial cartoons, military genre, illustration.

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 The foremost political cartoonist of his time, the late 19th century, Thomas Nast was the creator of three lasting symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democrat donkey, and Santa Claus, having done the illustrations for Clement Moore's, The Night Before Christmas.  President Abraham Lincoln regarded Nast's recruitment posters and newspaper promos as one of the most effective recruitment devices of the Civil War.

Nast was born in Landau, Bavaria and emigrated with his family to America in 1846. At age 15, he began his illustration career as a draftsman at Leslie's Illustrated Magazine.  Several years later he moved to the New York Illustrated News, and his first assignment was in England at the Heenan-Sayers boxing match.  After that, he went to Italy to cover Garibaldi's campaign to unite Italy, an experience that strengthened his own commitment to political ideals of freedom.

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   Publications  Book References:  86
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Thomas Nast
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques Gothamtide December 2002 Groff, Sibyl Mccormac Yes
American Art Review The Political Pen of Thomas Nast February 1999 Editor, American Art Review Yes
86 Book References for Thomas Nast
Year Author Title Pages Color
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
2005 Duychinck, Evert A. (Illustrator) National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and Naval: Founded on official and other authentic documents 0 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
2001 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators 452 Yes
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
2000 Pflueger, Lynda Thomas Nast: Political Cartoonist (Historical American Biographies) 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Shirley, David Thomas Nast: Cartoonist and Illustrator (Book Report Biographies) 127 Yes
1998 Worth, Richard Thomas Nast: Honesty in the Pursuit of Corruption 70 Yes
1997 Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States 400 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 O'Leary, Elizabeth L At Beck and Call: Domestic Servants In 19th Century Painting 305 Yes
1995 Shell, Marc Art & Money (University of Chicago) 230 Yes
1994 Lent, John A Animation, Caricature...Cartoons in the U S A and Canada/A Bibliography 415 No
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1993 Holzer, Harold/Mark E Neely Jr Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory The Civil War in Art 336 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1991 Gilbert Anne American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide 1991 Yes
1991 Truettner, William H The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 386 Yes
1990 Boime, Albert The Art of Exclusion Representing Blacks in the 19th Century 256 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 McElroy, Guy C Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 190 Yes
1989 Gidley, Mick/R Lawson-Peebles Views of American Landscapes 227 No
1988 Danly, Susan American Drawings and Watercolors From the Huntington Collections 42 Yes
1988 Danly, Susan/Leo Marx The Railroad in American Art Representations of Technological Change 218 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Tatham, David Prints and Printmakers of New York State, 1825-1940 277 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
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 Reed, Walt and Roger The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration 355 Yes
1983 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1982 Von Blum, Paul Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S 165 No
1981 Feaver, William Masters of Caricature From Hogarth & Gillray to Scarfe & Levine 240 Yes
1981 Paine, Albert Bigelow Thomas Nast: (American Men and Women of Letter Series) 0 No
1981 Press, Charles The Political Cartoon 389 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Haverstock, Mary Sayre An American Bestiary 248 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1976 Hoff, Syd Editorial and Political Cartooning From Earliest Times to the Present 416 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1976 Tyler, Ron The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon
(Exhibition catalog)		 228 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fern, Alan; Milton Kaplan Viewpoints: The Library of Congress Selection of Pictorial Treasures 222 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 E B Crocker Art Gallery American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 Yes
1974 Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro) The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago 274 Yes
1974 Parry, Ellwood The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art 189 No
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 245 Yes
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Mondale, Joan Adams Politics in Art 72 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Irwin, Grace Trail-Blazers of American Art 228 No
1969 Doty, Robert Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1969 Garrett, Wendell (others) The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century 412 No
1969 Shikes, Ralph E The Indignant Eye The Artist as Social Critic (15th Cen to Picasso) 439 No
1968 Hadley, Rollin V N Drawings Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 68 No
1968 Keller, Morton The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast 353 No
1968 McLanathan, Richard The American Tradition in the Arts 492 No
1968 Townsend, Benjamin (others) This New Man A Discourse in Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 217 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1965 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters 141 Yes
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1964 Veglahn, Nancy The Tiger's Tail: A Story of America's Great Political Cartoonist Thomas Nast 211 Yes
1961 Dorra, Henri American Muse, The 163 Yes
1961 Hofer, Philip The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 In Western Europe and the United States
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1961 National Gallery of Art The Civil War A Centenial Exhibition of Eyewitness Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 153 No
1959 Becker, Stephen Comic Art in America 387 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 No
1947 Mugridge, Donald H An Album of American Battle Art 1755-1918 319 No
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1938 Bolton, Theodore American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists 290 No
1938 Murrell, William History of American Graphic Humor 1865-1938 267 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1904 Paine, Alfred Bigelow Thomas Nast His Period and His Pictures 583 No
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