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Direct from Nature

The Oil Sketches of Thomas Hill

Direct from Nature( )
Author: Driesbach, Janice T.
Gerdts, William H.
Hill, Thomas
Crocker Art Museum Staff,
ISBN:978-0-939666-84-3
Publication Date:Jan 1997
Publisher:Yosemite Conservancy
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

This is the first book to draw attention to the remarkable oil sketches of famed landscape artist Thomas Hill. These smaller pieces, painted in the field directly from nature, represent some of Hill's finest work and include subjects as diverse as Yosemite, the White Mountains, and Alaska.

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Author Biography
Driesbach, Janice T. (Author)
William H. Gerdts was born in 1929 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Amherst College and a master's degree and PhD in fine arts from Harvard University. He has served as curator of art at the Norfolk (Virginia) Museum and resident director of the historic Myers House in Norfolk, as curator of painting and sculpture at the Newark (New Jersey) Museum, and as gallery director at the University of Maryland (College Park), where he also taught art history. He is an art historian and professor of art history at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of 25 books on American art including Art Across America. Two Centuries of Regional Painting and American Impressionism.

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