Charles Willson Peale

Author : Charles Coleman Sellers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393057003
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Peale's Museum written by Charles Coleman Sellers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Willson Peale was not only one of our finest early American painters, but also the founder of the world's first popular museum of natural science and art.

Author : David C. Ward
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239601
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Willson Peale written by David C. Ward and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-08-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It links the artist's autobiography to his painting, illuminating the man, his art, and his times. Peale emerges for the first time as that particularly American phenomenon: the self-made man."

Author : Charles Coleman Sellers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Willson Peale written by Charles Coleman Sellers and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond conveying the warmth and charm of Peale's life, Mr. Sellers biography provides the most complete record available of the artist's achievements and of the Peale family. The many pictures that the author gathered for this volume illustrate Peale's scientific and patriotic endeavors as well as his artistic ventures- many illustrations are reproduced here for the first time". -- from book jacket.

Author : Charles Willson Peale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Willson Peale and His World written by Charles Willson Peale and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the eighteenth-century artist, Charles Wilson Peale, discusses his study of natural history, and examines his paintings of American society.

Author : Charles Coleman Sellers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Willson Peale written by Charles Coleman Sellers and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James H. Johnston
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823239500
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Slave Ship to Harvard written by James H. Johnston and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of six generations of an African American family in Maryland. Based on paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories, the book traces Yarrow Mamout and his in-laws, the Turners, from the colonial period through the Civil War to Harvard and finally the present day.

Author : Lillian B. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peale Family written by Lillian B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Coleman Sellers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Willson Peale written by Charles Coleman Sellers and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Doris Devine Fanelli
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871692422
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park written by Doris Devine Fanelli and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a history and catalog of the portraits by Charles Willson Peale, who painted heroes of the American revolution, founders of American government, statesmen, jurists, men of science, and individuals who contributed art and letters. The three chapters by Fanelli (Cultural Resources Management, Independence National Historical Park) discuss the collection from its inception through the period in which the shrine that housed it became a museum. Each of the 250 entries (mostly b&w, with a few in color) in the catalog includes a brief biography of the subject, a physical description of the painting, the circumstances under which it was created, and its provenance. They are arranged alphabetically by sitter. Edited by Karie Diethorn, chief curator, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Mary E. Lyons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689811462
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poison Place written by Mary E. Lyons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death.