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William Morris Hunt

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William Morris Hunt (1824 - 1879) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont.  William Hunt is known for Portrait, landscape, genre and figure painting.

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 One of the most influential and respected artists in Boston during the late 19th century, William Morris Hunt was a leading proponent of the French Barbizon School of painting, the precursor of Impressionism.  He was a landscape, genre, and portrait painter, a highly respected teacher, and widely read writer.  His engaging personality combined with his talents to make him the leading arbiter of aesthetics in New England where he was one of the first artists to inject French influence.

Hunt was born in Brattleboro, Vermont and was raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He was from a prominent family that included his brother Richard Morris Hunt, the architect of the Vanderbilt houses "Biltmore" and "The Breakers."  William Hunt had a lively personality and was considered a witty, non-conforming man who did not stay on the traditional path to academic success.

He attended Harvard University where he studied sculpture with Henry Kirke Brown, but weake   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10869 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about William Morris Hunt

   Publications  Book References:  187
Magazine References:  9

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9 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Morris Hunt
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques Museum Accessions November 2004 Eleanor H Gustafson Yes
American Art Review Mead Art Museum June 2004 Clark, Trinkett Yes
American Art Review Smith College Museum of Art June 2004 Muehlig, Linda Yes
American Art Review Painting & Sculpture from Smith April 2002 Muehlig, Linda Yes
The Magazine Antiques Living with Antiques November 2001 Quick, Michael No
Art & Antiques Picturing the Sunshine State August 2001 Arbitman, Kahren Jones Yes
American Art Review Southern Landscape Painting December 1999 Pennington, Estill Curtis Yes
The Magazine Antiques Paintings of Florida in the Vickers November 1995 Cikovsky, Nicolai Jr Yes
American Art Review 150 Years of American Painting October 1995 Gibbs, Linda Jones Yes
187 Book References for William Morris Hunt
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
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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 Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.)
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
2004 Cleveland, David Adams Intimate Landscapes: Charles Warren Eaton and the Tonalist Movement in American Art, 1880-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 Yes
2004 Riback, Estelle The Intimate Landscape A New Look at the Origins of the American Barbizon Movement 132 Yes
2004 Vose, Marcia (editor) Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline 38 Yes
2002 Beal, Graham American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
2001 Spanierman, Deborah (essay) 110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC)
(Exhibition catalog)		 136 Yes
2000 Vose, Marcia L , editor Vose Art Notes Works on Paper 29 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
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
1999 Tolles, Thayer (Editor); Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume One: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865 451 Yes
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1997 Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States 400 Yes
1997 Vose Galleries Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two 35 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 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1995 Libby, Gary R (editor) Celebrating Florida Works of Art from the Vickers Collection 144 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Simpson, Marc The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 315 Yes
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 Stebbins, Theodore E The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 470 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Webster, Sally William Morris Hunt 1824-1879 244 No
1991 Weinberg, H Barbara The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers 295 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 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: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown Sport in Art From American Museums
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1989 Bloch, E Maurice Faces and Figures in American Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 99 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Florida Arts Celebration Florida Visionaries: 1870-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper III
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1988 Danly, Susan American Drawings and Watercolors From the Huntington Collections 42 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Marling, Karal Ann Looking Back A Perspective on the 1913 Inaugural Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 55 Yes
1988 Susan Sheehan Inc American Masterworks on Paper 1800-1960 104 No
1987 Neff, Terry (editor) A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art 300 Yes
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1987 Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1986 Carr, Carolyn K The Edwin C Shaw Collection of American Impressionist & Tonalist Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Gammell, R H Ives The Boston Painters 1900-1930 204 Yes
1986 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 148 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 Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
(Exhibition catalog)		 314 Yes
1985 Adamson, Jeremy Elwell Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes 1697-1901
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 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
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Reaves, Wendy Wick American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference 285 No
1984 Troyen, Carol/Pamela Tabbaa The Great Boston Collectors Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts 151 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 Virginia Museum, Richmond Painting in the South: 1564-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 362 Yes
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1982 Meixner, Laura L An International Episode Millet, Monet & their N American Counterparts
(Exhibition catalog)		 206 Yes
1982 Sellin, David / J K Ballinger Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 229 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 Gerdts, William H The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1981 Hirschl & Adler Galleries America in Print 1796-1941
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1981 Mead, Katherine Harper (Editor) The Preston Morton Collection of American Art (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1981 Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 228 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Janson, Anthony/A Ian Fraser 100 Masterpieces of Painting Indianapolis Museum of Art 295 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1980 Pierce, Patricia Jobe Edmund C Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting (1889-1980) 285 Yes
1980 Troyen, Carol The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 204 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 Haverstock, Mary Sayre An American Bestiary 248 Yes
1979 Hoppin, Martha/Henry Adams William Morris Hunt A Memorial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 86 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1978 Morgan, H Wayne The New Muses Art in American Culture 1865-1920 232 Yes
1978 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Art & Commerce American Prints of the Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 179 Yes
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
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
1977 Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 Yes
1977 Sweeney, J Gray Themes in American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Pierce, Patricia Jobe The Ten 201 Yes
1976 Richardson, Edgar P American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd
(Exhibition catalog)		 247 Yes
1976 Riggs, Timothy A The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876 95 No
1976 Ross, Barbara T American Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University 132 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1976 Virginia Museum American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 Yes
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky The Heritage of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 237 Yes
1975 Landgren, Marchal E Late Landscapes/William Morris Hu
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Gerdts, William H The Great American Nude A History in Art 224 Yes
1973 Hennessey, William J The American Portrait: From the Death of Stuart to Sargent 63 No
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 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)		 188 No
1971 Baigell, Mathew A History of American Painting 288 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Gerdts, William; Russell Burke American Still Life Painting 264 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
1970 Cohen, Mildred Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1970 Howat, John K (others) 19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1970 Landgren, Marchal E American Pupils of Thomas Couture
(Exhibition catalog)		 65 No
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 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Scheyer, Ernst The Circle of Henry Adams: Art & Artist 309 No
1970 Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor) Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings 166 No
1969 Brockton Art Center Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums 48 No
1969 Canaday, John The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes 1520 Yes
1969 Garrett, Wendell (others) The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century 412 No
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
1969 Richardson, Edgar P The Way of Western Art 1776-1914 204 No
1968 Boston University Boston Painters 1720-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 70 No
1968 Hadley, Rollin V N Drawings Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 68 No
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 Townsend, Benjamin (others) This New Man A Discourse in Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 217 Yes
1968 Wilmerding, John History of American Marine Painting 179 Yes
1968 Wilmerding, John American Marine Painting (2nd Edition) 204 Yes
1967 Hirschl & Adler Galleries American Paintings for Public and Private Collections 52 Yes
1967 Kennedy Galleries Reality, Romanticism, Realism Two Centuries of American Painting 60 No
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1966 Los Angeles County Museum American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 143 Yes
1965 Burroughs, Alan Limners and Likenesses 246 No
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1960 Bizardell, Yvon American Painters in Paris 177 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1957 Trovato, Joseph, (Foreward); William C. Murray (Introduction) Portraiture: The 19th and 20th Centuries (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 36 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1952 Corcoran Gallery of Art Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1949 Swenson, Eleanor De Gustibus A Century of Taste and Criticism
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1943 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1943 Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller Romantic Painting in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1943 Walker, John; James MacGill Great American Paintings from Smibert to Bellows, 1729-1924 (National Gallery of Art) 112 Yes
1941 Saint-Gaudens, Homer The American Artist and His Times 332 No
1940 Addison, Agnes (editor) Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania 67 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 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
1937 Editor, Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 No
1936 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Main Currents in the Development of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1934 Cahill, Holger/Alfred H Barr Art in America In Modern Times (1865-1934) 110 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1929 La Follette, Suzanne Art in America 361 No
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1923 Shannon, Martha Boston Days of William Morris Hunt 207 No
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1917 Guthrie, Anna Lorraine American Art A Study Outline 63 No
1913 Blashfield, Edwin Howland Mural Painting in America 312 No
1899 Knowlton, Helen M Art Life of William Morris Hunt 219 No
1898 Hoyt, Deristhe L. The World's Painters and Their Pictures 272 No
1889 Van Dyke, John C How To Judge A Picture Familiar Talks in the Gallery 168 No
1880 Angell, Henry C Records of William M Hunt 126 No
1879 Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele Art in America a Critical and Historical Sketch 214 No
1879 Sheldon, G W American Painters With Eighty-three Engraved Examples of Their Work 184 No
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