Research Catalog

Title

Form radiating life : the paintings of Charles Rosen / Brian H. Peterson ; with an essay by Tom Wolf.

Author

Peterson, Brian H.

Publication

Doylestown, Pa. : James A. Michener Art Museum ; Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Rosen, Charles, 1878-1950.
• James A. Michener Art Museum
• Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.

Description

198 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports.; 32 cm.

Summary

Charles Rosen (1878-1950) began his career as a photographer in western Pennsylvania but fell in love with painting while still a teenager. This interest led him to enroll at the National Academy of Design in New York, as well as the New York School of Art, where he studied under William Merritt Chase and Frank Vincent DuMond. Rosen began to develop an interest in landscape painting, and in 1903 he and his wife moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he quickly became an important member of the Pennsylvania Impressionist school, producing large snowscapes and spring scenes. His New Hope canvases utilize a simple but elegant compositional style sometimes reminiscent of Japanese prints, and his mature landscape work demonstrates an interest in the decorative patterning of nature.Rosen eventually became dissatisfied with the landscape style, and under the influence of Modernist ideas his work changed radically. In 1920, he moved to Woodstock, New York, to teach at and later direct the Art Students League summer school. In Woodstock he developed close friendships with painters George Bellows and Eugene Speicher, and began to work in a semiabstract, formalist style using buildings and other man-made structures as subject matter. This style would characterize his work from that time forward.Form Radiating Life is an examination of the life and work of Charles Rosen, studying both phases of his career and featuring paintings that demonstrate this unusual range of styles. Lavishly illustrated, it represents the oeuvre of an artist of prodigious talent and vision but also tremendous sensitivity.

Alternative Title

Paintings of Charles Rosen

Subject

Rosen, Charles, 1878-1950 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This book accompanies the exhibition 'Form radiating life: the paintings of Charles Rosen,' at the James A. Michener Art Museum, New Hope, Pennsylvania, October 13, 2006-January 28, 2007; and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, February 24-May 13, 2007"--P. [8].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Life of Charles Rosen / Brian H. Peterson -- tale of two colonies : Charles Rosen's Woodstock years / Tom Wolf -- From radiating life : the paintings of Charles Rosen / Brian H. Peterson -- Color plates : new hope and landscape -- Color plates : Woodstock and modernism -- Color plates: works on paper -- Chronology -- App. 1. Charles Rosen : transcribed lectures and lecture notes : lecture 1 (on art appreciation), lecture 2 (on art appreciation), lecture on Monet, lecture notes 1, lecture notes 2 -- App. 2. European travel diary, excerpts -- App. 3. Letters to Charles Rosen from George Bellows, Daniel Garber, William Lathrop, Edward Redfield, Eugene Speicher, miscellaneous letters -- App. 4. John F. Folinsbee : commentary on Charles Rosen -- App. 5. lineman : image and commentary -- App. 6. Rosen "drawing lesson" -- App. 7. Charles Rosen and the juried exhibits : Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915 -- App. 8. Selected list of honors and awards.

ISBN

0812239881 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2006017108
• 9780812239881

OCLC

• 69645789
• SCSB-10389558

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library