American graphic art

University Of California Libraries, Frank Weitenkampf

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AMERICAN ARGRAPHIC WEITENRAMPFUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELESoi AT UBRAH&STUDY S.byLithograph John SargentAMERICAN GRAPH I C ART BY F. WEITENKAMPF Art and Prints New York Public Chief, Divisions, Library Author of"How to etc.Appreciate Prints," WITH ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1912 146412COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY Published October, 1912 THE QUINN A BOOFN CO. PREIS RAHWAr, N. J.ME: 5*05 \AJ43o- A WORD OF EXPLANATION THE of American and hashistory painting sculpture more than once in recent That ofbeen written years. the arts as a whole remains to bereproductive graphic There are such as Linton'stold. W.monographs J. and record of Americanexcellent partly polemical and Hitchcock's useful vol-wood-engraving Ripley very ume on in the United both inStates,etching published the of the last There D. McN.is, too,eighties century. Stauffer's record of our onalphabetical engravers copper, an invaluable book of reference. But the connectedonly and account of American artcomprehensive graphic ap- to in German. In the last decade ofpeared, strange say, the nineteenth the century, Gesellschaft fur Fervielfalti- of issued its monumental four-Vienna,gende Kunst, " volume work on thecontemporary reproductive art," of the achievement of the nineteenth Inhistory century. the American section was covered the late S. R.this, by Koehler for and and theetching wood-engraving by pres- ent writer for The is one worth tell-lithography. story in And it should be carried back to theing English. of our of such a historical in-early products art, strong and down to the most recent efforts atterest, original as we see them in the revival ofexpression, present painter- and in the individual of the wood blocketching, adoption and the stone aslithographic painter-media.VI of the book isThe to scatteredobject present group brief offacts in a but clear review of the whole field American art. It is not intended to agraphic present detailed list artist who haveincluding every may practised of these arts in this but to offer a surveyany country, will out salient or characteristicthat bring personalities and tendencies. of of literatureIn a formal citationplace bibliography, on is made at the in thespecial topics proper places body of the book. Thanks are due to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for to certain from con-permission reprint paragraphs my tributions to their F. W.magazine.