Research Catalog

Title

Wild impressions : the Adirondacks on paper : prints in the collection of the Adirondack Museum / by Georgia B. Barnhill ; with an introduction by David Tatham.

Author

Barnhill, Georgia Brady, 1944-

Publication

[Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.] : The Museum ; Boston : D.R. Godine, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Adirondack Museum

Description

xix, 99 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 x 25 cm.

Summary

• Since its opening last century, the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York has captured the nation's imagination. Home to artists and writers, philosophers and sportsmen, its mountains, rivers, and valleys have always radiated a special mystique, offering its admirers what was, and still is, among the largest and most spectacular wilderness regions in the East.
• Nowhere is the topography, history, or activities of this area more eloquently recorded than in the print collection of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. And in this fully illustrated book, certain to become the standard reference work on the subject, the reader is treated to the remarkable variety and quality of graphic work that has flowed from this region.
• Here are wood engravings by Winslow Homer, color lithographs after A.F. Tait, hunting scenes from Currier and Ives, and etchings by Stephen Parrish and John Henry Hill. Whether intended to attract tourists, record the landscape, or sway public opinion, these prints not only document the history of a singular region but also mirror the broader cultural trends of a vigorous, expansive, and confident America.

Subject

• Adirondack Museum > Exhibitions
• 1800-1899
• Prints, American > Exhibitions
• Prints > 19th century > United States > Exhibitions
• Prints > Blue Mountain Lake > Exhibitions
• Prints, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) > In art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of the exhibition held May 27 through Oct. 15, 1995 at the Adirondack Museum.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-96) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Jacqueline F. Day -- Acknowledgments / Georgia B. Barnhill -- Preface / Caroline M. Welsh -- Introduction to Adirondack Prints / David Tatham -- The Adirondacks Delineated / Georgia B. Barnhill -- Checklist of Prints. Metal Engravings. Artists' Etchings. Lithographs. Wood Engravings.

ISBN

• 1567920411
• 0910020450 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95060362^

OCLC

• 33487922
• SCSB-10376193

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library