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Benjamin West

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Benjamin West (1738 - 1820) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / United Kingdom, England.  Benjamin West is known for History, allegorical, religious and portrait paintings.

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 America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame.  He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings.

West was born near Springfield, Pennsylvania, near the future location of Swathmore College.  Supposedly, he first learned pigment making from local Indians.  William Williams, an English portrait painter living in Philadelphia, was probably his first teacher.

West's father was an innkeeper, and as a youngster, West began sketching many of the people who passed through his home.  As a teenager, he was painting portraits in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and by age 20, had finished his first history painting, The Death of Socrates.

Sensing his exceptional talent, a group of local persons raised money to send him abroad with the goal of making him America's first professional painte   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6861 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  287
Magazine References:  20

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20 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Benjamin West
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques The Library Company of Philadelphia August 2006 Soltis, Carol Eaton Yes
American Art Review Selections from the Dr & Mrs Henry August 2005 Landon, Dr Henry C III No
American Art Review Drawings & Watercolors, Hood Museum March 2005 MacAdam, Barbara J Yes
American Art Review 200th Anniversary of PA Academy January 2005 Editors, American Art Review Yes
American Art Review American Artists Abroad and Their I October 2004 Stula, Nancy Yes
American Arts Quarterly The Hickory Museum of Art May 2004 Mirabella, Stephen Yes
American Art Review American Art at the Flint Institute October 2003 Leeds, Valerie Ann Yes
American Artist Nuts & Bolts September 2003 Baxter, Kathleen (ed) Yes
American Art Review The Great American Nude August 2002 Gerdts, W and Hall-Duncan, N Yes
ARTnews A Passion for America's Past May 2002 May, Stephen Yes
Art & Antiques Top 100 Treasures November 2001 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming December 2000 Ledes, Allison Eckardt Yes
American Art Review Treasures from the Smithsonian April 2000 Severens, Martha R Yes
The Magazine Antiques William Rush's Indian Trader December 1999 Lahvis, Sylvia Leistyna Yes
American Art Review The Forbes Magazine Collection June 1999 Forbes, Christopher Yes
American Art Review New Britain Museum of American Art April 1999 Buckley, Laurene Yes
American Art Review Treasures from Westmoreland Museum February 1999 O'Toole, Judith/ Carla Herling Yes
The Magazine Antiques Benjamin West and the Death November 1996 McNairn, Alan Yes
American Art Review 150 Years of American Painting October 1995 Gibbs, Linda Jones Yes
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming September 1994 Ledes, Allison Eckhardt No
287 Book References for Benjamin West
Year Author Title Pages Color
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum) 573 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 American Artists Abroad and Their Inspiration: Selections from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum 64 Yes
2003 Flint Institute of Arts All American: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Flint Institute of
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
2002 Beal, Graham American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
2002 Bruce Museum of Arts and Sci. The Great American Nude
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 No
2002 Wilton, Andrew; Tim Barringer American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 Yes
2001 Sheets, Georg R Pennsylvania Heritage: Diversity in Art, Dance, Music, Food and Customs 160 Yes
2000 Frank, Robin Jaffee Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures 0 No
2000 Wilner, Eli et al The Gilded Edge 0 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
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States 400 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 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
1995 Adams, H. and Johnson, K. Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art 192 Yes
1995 Burnham, Patricia/L H Giese Redefining American History Paintng 409 No
1995 Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day 960 Yes
1995 Miles, Ellen G American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 419 No
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 Lubin, David M Picturing a Nation Art and Social Change in 19th Century America 364 Yes
1994 Simpson, Marc The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 315 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Ayers, William S Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1993 Pavese, Edith American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art 160 Yes
1993 Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor
(Exhibition catalog)		 266 Yes
1993 Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection 414 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1992 Danly, Susan Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy 104 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 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1992 Stebbins, Theodore E The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 470 Yes
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection) 161 No
1991 Detroit Institute of the Arts American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1) 340 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Miller, Lillian B/David C Ward Charles Willson Peale New Perspectives/250th Anniversary Celebration 317 No
1991 Pennsylvania Academy Telling Tales 19th Century Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
1991 Philbrook Museum of Art Philbrook Museum of Art Handbook to the Collections 250 Yes
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
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: 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 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
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 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Kushner, Marilyn; Alejandro Anreus, et all Three Hundred Years of American Painting: Montclair Art Museum Collection 200 Yes
1989 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections 198 Yes
1989 Pennington, Estill Curtis Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art 200 Yes
1989 Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville) The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran 254 Yes
1989 Staley, Allen/Arnold Lehman Benjamin West American Painter at the English Court
(Exhibition catalog)		 119 Yes
1989 Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images 304 Yes
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 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 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Gerdts, William & Thistlewaite Grand Illusions History Painting in America 174 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Lipshultz, Sandra LaWall Selected Works Minneapolis Institute of Arts 269 Yes
1988 Scully, Vincent New World Visions of Household Gods and Sacred Places American Art, 1650-1914 183 Yes
1988 Thrapp, Dan L Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography Volume Three (P-Z) 597 No
1988 Vlach, John Michael Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art 206 Yes
1988 Ward, Meredith (essay) Adventure and Inspiration American Artists in Other Lands
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 Yes
1988 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art 208 Yes
1988 Wooden, Howard E Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem 212 No
1987 Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum 94 Yes
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
1986 Baur, John I.H. The Figure in American Art 1764-1983 Three Simultaneous Exhibitions: Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann The West of the Imagination 457 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 Richardson, Edgar P American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 157 Yes
1986 Salinger, Margaretta Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Yes
1986 Von Erffa, Helmut & A Staley The Paintings of Benjamin West 606 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Abrams, Ann Uhry The Valiant Hero Benjamin West and Grand Style History Painting 256 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 Kloss, William/C C Eldredge Treasures from the National Museu of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 254 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Adams, Henry 25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
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 Hassrick, Peter H Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute 127 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 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1983 Johnston, Sona K American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art 187 Yes
1983 Ministere de la Culture Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 378 Yes
1983 National Academy of Design Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1983 Pressly, Nancy L Revealed Religion Benjamin West's Commissions
(Exhibition catalog)		 74 No
1983 Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays) A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 351 Yes
1982 Hirschl & Adler Galleries American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods 100 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Richardson, Edgar P (others) Charles Willson Peale and His Work
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 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
1982 Trapp, Kenneth R Celebrate Cincinnati Art 89 No
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 Gerdts, William H The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1981 Mead, Katherine Harper (Editor) The Preston Morton Collection of American Art (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 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
1981 Smith, Alistair (intro) Larousse Dictionary of Painters (Americans included in world listing) 467 Yes
1981 Williams, William James A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art 256 Yes
1980 Evans, Dorinda Benjamin West and His American Students
(Exhibition catalog)		 202 No
1980 Galleries, Hirschl and Adler American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980 112 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 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art 180 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Bishop, Robert Folk Painters of America 255 Yes
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
1979 Mint Museum American Paintings The Landon Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1979 Myers, Fred The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK) 106 Yes
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
1979 Teitz, Richard Stuart American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum 118 No
1978 Alberts, Robert C Benjamin West A Biography 573 No
1978 Davidson, Abraham A The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters 203 Yes
1978 Getlein, Frank The Lure of the Great West 352 Yes
1978 Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall Art About Art 176 Yes
1978 Mathey, Francois American Realism 192 No
1978 Spencer Museum of Art Spencer Museum of Art Handbook of the Collection 168 Yes
1978 William Rockhill Nelson G of A Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 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 Dillenberger, John Benjamin West The Context of His Life's Work 238 No
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Norman, Geraldine Nineteenth-Century Painters and Painting/A Dictionary 240 Yes
1977 Prown, Jules David; John Walker (Intro) American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show 133 Yes
1977 Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present 277 Yes
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
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923) 119 No
1976 Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776 208 Yes
1976 Marcus, George H. (Editor) Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 166 Yes
1976 Montgomery, Charles/Pat Kane American Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 Yes
1976 Ross, Barbara T American Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University 132 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 Taylor, Joshua C 200 Jahre Amerikanische Malerei 1776-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1976 Tracy, Berry and Howat, John A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan 82 Yes
1975 Buckley, Charles E The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections 377 Yes
1975 Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay) American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum 182 Yes
1975 Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky The Heritage of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 237 Yes
1975 Kraemer, Ruth Drawings by Benjamin West and His Son, Raphael Lamar West 104 Yes
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 Smith, Bradley The U S A A History in Art 296 Yes
1975 Snyder, Martin P City of Independence Views of Philadelphia Before 1800 304 Yes
1975 Steadman, William E First Flowers of Our Wilderness (University of Arizona Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1975 Stein, Roger B Seascape and the American Imagination
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1975 Taylor, Joshua C To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art 117 Yes
1974 Davidson, Abraham A The Story of American Painting 168 Yes
1974 Gerdts, William H The Great American Nude A History in Art 224 Yes
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 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
1974 Woolfenden, William E. (Foreward); Garmett McCoy (Intro) From Reliable Sources, Archives of American Art An Exhibition of Letters from the Smithsonian Instituteion
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 No
1973 Bennett, Ian A History of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 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 Robinson, Franklin W One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections 219 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1972 Dickson, Harold E Masterworks by Pennsylvania Painters in Pennsylvania Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1972 Dillenberger, Jane/J C Taylor The Hand and Spirit Religious Art in America 1700-1900
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)		 188 No
1972 Neilson, Katharine B Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery 343 Yes
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1972 Wunderlich, Rudolf G; Lawrence A. Fleischman American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1971 Baigell, Mathew A History of American Painting 288 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 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 Quimby, Ian M G (editor) American Painting to 1776 A Reappraisal 381 No
1970 Bolton, Theodore Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons 111 No
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1970 Lester, C Edwards The Artists of America A Series of Biographical Sketches 257 No
1970 Lynes, Russell The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America 514 No
1970 Marlor, Clark S The History of the Brooklyn Art Association with Index of Exhibitions
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 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 Prown, Jules/John Walker American Painting From Its Beginnings to the Armory Show 145 Yes
1970 Ray, Frederick E O! Say Can You See The Story of America through Great Paintings 189 Yes
1970 Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor) Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings 166 No
1969 Canaday, John The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes 1520 Yes
1969 Flexner, James Thomas History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies 307 No
1969 Garrett, Wendell (others) The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century 412 No
1969 Myron, Robert/Abner Sundell Art In America From Colonial Days Through the Nineteenth Century 186 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 Stewart, Robert G A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans 93 No
1968 Dickson, Harold E Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap
(Exhibition catalog)		 234 No
1968 Kennedy Galleries The American Artist Abroad
(Exhibition catalog)		 75 Yes
1968 McLanathan, Richard The American Tradition in the Arts 492 No
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
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 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Flexner, James Thomas America's Old Masters 365 No
1967 Hirschl & Adler Galleries American Paintings for Public and Private Collections 52 Yes
1967 Oliver, Andrew The Adams Papers Portraits of John and Abigail Adams 284 No
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Harris, Neil The Artist in American Society The Formative Years 432 No
1966 Kalamazoo Art Center Paintings by American Masters Fifth Anniversary Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 18 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
1966 North Carolina Museum of Art American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1 118 Yes
1966 Wright, Louis (others) The Arts in America Colonial Period 368 No
1965 Burroughs, Alan Limners and Likenesses 246 No
1965 Gardner, Albert and S Field American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum 284 No
1965 Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation) 162 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 Hagen, Oskar The Birth of the American Tradition in Art 159 No
1963 Freedgood, Lillian Great Artists of America 254 Yes
1963 Minneapolis Institute of Art Four Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 No
1963 Richardson, Edgar P A Short History of Painting in America 347 Yes
1963 Walker, John National Gallery of Art, Washington 347 Yes
1962 Hirsch, Richard The World of Benjamin West
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 No
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1961 Rorimer, James/JohnWalker 101 Masterpieces of Primitive American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1960 Bizardell, Yvon American Painters in Paris 177 Yes
1959 Evans, Grose Benjamin West And the Taste of His Times 208 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1956 Arizona State College Arizona State College Collection American Art 108 No
1956 King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 No
1955 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr The Naked Truth and Personal Vision The Length of the Artistic Road (Addison Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1955 Pennsylvania Academy One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition 1955
(Exhibition catalog)		 153 No
1954 Arizona State University The Arizona State College Collection of American Art 110 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1950 U S National Capital S C American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission)
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 No
1949 Art Institute of Chicago From Colony to Nation (Exhibition US works to War of 1812)
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 No
1949 Ford, Alice Pictorial Folk Art New England to California 172 Yes
1948 Gardner, Helen Art Through the Ages (Third Edition) 851 Yes
1947 Flexner, James Thomas History of American Painting: First Flowers of Our Wilderness: The Colonial Period (Volume One) 368 Yes
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 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 New York Historical Society American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures 367 No
1941 Saint-Gaudens, Homer The American Artist and His Times 332 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1939 Boswell, Peyton Jr Modern American Painting 207 Yes
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1938 Kimball, Fiske/Henri Marceau Benjamin West 1738-1820
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1937 Caffin, Charles H The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America 396 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
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 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
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1923 McSpadden, J Walker Famous Painters of America 418 No
1922 Kelby, William Notes on American Artists 1754-1820 Portraits & Sculpture in New York Hist Society 80 Yes
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
1918 Ehrich Galleries One Hundred Early American Paintings 176 No
1917 Guthrie, Anna Lorraine American Art A Study Outline 63 No
1900 Jackson, Henry E Benjamin West His Life and Work 140 No
1898 Hoyt, Deristhe L. The World's Painters and Their Pictures 272 No
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1820 Galt, John (N Wright intro) Benjamin West, Esq Life Studies and Works 251 No
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