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William Hart

William Hart (1823 - 1894) was active/lived in New York / United Kingdom, Scotland.  William Hart is known for Landscape, cattle, genre, and coastal painting (Hudson River).

Biography photo for William Hart
Note from Letitia Hart, descendant of the artist:

James and Marion Hart and seven of their children, including James M. Hart age 1 yr., 9 mos., and William Hart age 6 yrs., 10 mos., came from Scotland to New York on the ship, Camillus.  They landed on February 12, 1830. This information comes from a hand written record at the National Archives.  The year of arrival is illegible because of the poor handwriting of the clerk at the dock. The manifest lists the parents and seven children and their ages.  Based upon the known birthdates of the family and the ages listed on the manifest, my arithmetic calculates that the ship arrived in 1830.

Obituary of the artist, New York Daily Tribune, June 18, 1894, courtesy of Ashley Bracken, a family member.

William Hart, NA., the well-known artist, died yesterday at his home in Mount Vernon, N.Y.  Mr. Hart was born in Paisley, Scotland in 1823 and came to this country with   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5960 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Research resources

.  askART lists William Hart in 1 of its research Essays. William Hart has 31 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about William Hart

   Publications  Book References:  92
Magazine References:  1

The listed publications are derived from what askART has identified from our research for this artist and are intended as an additional tool for information. askART has derived Publications as an aid to members, but it is not necessarily a complete list.
1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Hart
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Hudson River School February 2002 Huff, Roger Yes
92 Book References for William Hart
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Bacharach, Joan (General Editor) Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America's Stories (National Park Service) 160 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 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2003 Vose, Marcia Latimore (Editor) Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Winter 2003, Volume XI 36 Yes
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn The Nineteenth Century: Rediscovering American Painters (Vose Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)
40 Yes
1997 Driscoll, John Paul All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1995 Barnhill, Georgia B Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper 99 Yes
1994 Editors American Painting Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia
(Exhibition catalog)
56 Yes
1994 High Museum of Art American Paintings at the High Museum of Art 216 Yes
1994 Wilmerding, John The Artist's Mount Desert American Painters on the Maine Coast 195 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
1991 Baekland, Frederick Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Wilmerding, John American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875
(Exhibition catalog)
330 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
472 No
1988 McGrath, Robert/B J McAdam A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven Artists in the White Mountains,1830-1930
(Exhibition catalog)
99 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Schwarz-Philadelphia A Century of American Landscapes 1812-1912
(Exhibition catalog)
30 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Campbell, Catherine New Hampshire Scenery 0 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Pisano, Ronald G Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920 (Volume 1) 167 Yes
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Anderson, Patricia The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)
90 Yes
1984 Phoenix Art Museum Collecting Phoenix Art Museum, 1957-1984 45 Yes
1983 Moritz, Albert F America the Picturesque In Nineteenth Century Engraving 167 No
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Owens, Gwendolyn Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)
213 No
1981 Morrin, Peter; Eric Zafran; Ann Schierman American Landscape Paintings: Selections From the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1981 Nassau County Museum William Cullen Bryant (and the) Hudson River School of Landscape Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
61 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 Vigtel, Gudmund American Landscape Paintings From the High Museum (Catalogue for 1981 Traveling Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1980 Novak, Barbara and Annette Blaugrund Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design 213 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)
325 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 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1978 William Rockhill Nelson G of A Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Sweeney, J Gray Themes in American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
220 Yes
1976 Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923) 119 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1976 Wadsworth Atheneum The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes 96 Yes
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
272 No
1975 Heckscher Museum American Painting 32 Yes
1974 E B Crocker Art Gallery American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote
(Exhibition catalog)
28 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 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1972 Howat, John K; James Biddle (Preface); Carl Carmer (Foreward) The Hudson River and Its Painters 207 Yes
1971 Gerdts, William H 19th Century American Painting From the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller
(Exhibition catalog)
92 No
1971 Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
94 Yes
1970 Hawes, Louis The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre
(Exhibition catalog)
143 No
1970 Marlor, Clark S The History of the Brooklyn Art Association with Index of Exhibitions
(Exhibition catalog)
0 No
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 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Genesco, S U College, New York Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)
200 No
1968 Public Education Association The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1960 Pasadena Art Museum American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1958 Jones, Agnes Halsey Rediscovered Painters of Upstste New York/1700-1875 80 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
63 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1953 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union 0 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1947 Sears, Clara Endicott Hudson River Artists Highlights among the 280 No
1945 Sweet, Frederick A The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)
123 No
1943 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860
(Exhibition catalog)
0 No
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
230 No
1937 Caffin, Charles H The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America 396 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
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1879 Sheldon, G W American Painters With Eighty-three Engraved Examples of Their Work 184 No
Tenenbaum, F. (Curator) American Painting: The Heckscher Museum 32 Yes
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