Bibliography
Selected Bibliography On Portraits
BOOKS
Adler, Kathleen with Erica E. Hirsler and H. Barbara Weinberg. Americans in Paris 1860-1900. The National Gallery, London, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. London: The National Gallery Company, Ltd; 2006.
Brilliant, Richard. Portraiture. London: Reakaton Books, Ltd, 3rd ed. 1991.
Brilliant, Richard. Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America. The Jewish Museum. Munich & New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1997.
Carr, Carolyn Kinder and Miles, Ellen G. A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery. Washington, DC: The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2001.
Conner, Holly Payne. Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase and Sargent. New Brunswick, NY: Rutgers University Press, c.2006.
Connor, Janis and Joel Rosenkranz. Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1989.
Craven, Wayne. Colonial American Portraiture: The Economic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Philosphical, Scientific, and Aesthetic Foundations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Danly, Susan. Facing the Past: 19th Century Portraits from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1992.
Fischer, Diane P., ed. Paris 1900: The "American School" at the Universal Exposition. The Montclair Art Museum. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, c. 2000.
Gallati, Barbara Dayer. Children of the Gilded Age: Portraits by Sargent, Renoir, Cassatt, and Their Contemporaries. London & New York: Merrell, undated.
Gerdts, William H. Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting in America, 1710-1910. 3 vols. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990.
Lyons, Maura. William Dunlap and the Construction of An American Art History. Amherst and Boston: The University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
Lubin, David A. Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1985.
Miles, Ellen, ed. Portrait Painting in America: The Nineteenth Century. Antiques Magazine Library. New York: Universe Books, 1977.
Miller, Lillian B. ed, The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
Miller, Lillian B. ed, In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale 1778-1860. Washington D.C.: The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Institute. Seattle: University of Washington Press,1992.
Penny, Nicholas. Materials of Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Perry, Claire. Young America: Childhood in 19th Century Art and Culture. Iris and B. Gerald Canter Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Prelinger, Elizabeth. The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000.
Rockwell, Peter. The Art of Stoneworking: A Reference Guide. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Simon, Robin. The Portrait in Britain and American: With a Biographical Dictionary of Portrait Painters 1680-1914. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Quick, Michael. Essays by Marvin Sadik and William H. Gerdts. American Portraiture in the Grand Manner. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982.
American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century. Dayton, Ohio: The Dayton Art Institute, 1976.
Woodall, Joanna, ed. Portraiture: Facing the Subject. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1997.
Periodicals: Forthcoming
Dictionaries and Lists
Bradshaw, Maurice. Royal Society of British Artists - Members Exhibiting 1824-1892. Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, 1973.
Creps, Bob, ed. Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers of the United States. Land 'o Lakes Florida: Dealer's Choice Books, 2002.
Falk, Peter, ed. Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999.
Fielding, Mantle and Glenn B. Opitz. Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. Poughkeepie, NY: Apollo Book, 1986
Internet Resources
Internet Resources
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The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System.
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