New Jersey Art History (original) (raw)

New Jersey Art History

with an emphasis on representational art

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "New Jersey Art History." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays.

Following the links to _Resource Library_articles and essays are a listing of museums in the state which have provided materials to Resource Library for this or any other topic.

Listed after museums are links to _online_resources outside the TFAO website. Following these resources is information about offline resources including DVDs, paper-printed books, journals and articles. Our goal is to present complete knowledge relating to this section of Topics in American Art.

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(above: Thomas Moran, Beverly, N.J., 1880-89, watercolor on wove paper, 7.40 x 13.97 inches, Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Texts contained in Resource Library by named authors listed by author name in alphabetical order:

Artists and Art Colonies of Ridgefield, New Jersey by Gail Stavitsky

(above: John F. Kensett, View of the Shrewsbury River, New Jersey, 1859, oil on canvas, 12 x 20.07 inches, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Articles contained in Resource Library without named authors

Resource Library does not contain additional articles or essays dedicated specifically to New Jersey art. We recommend that researchers always search within Resource Library for additional material. Please see TFAO's pageHow to research topics not listed for more information.

(above: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City, c. 1885, oil on canvas, 30.1 x 59.4 inches, White House, District of Columbia. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:

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George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University

Rutgers University - Paul Robeson Gallery

(above: George Inness (1825-1894), Early Autumn, Montclair, 1891, oil on canvas, 28.9 x 45 inches, Delaware Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

From other websites:

Art & Architecture of New Jersey from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey includes biographies of New Jersey artists. Accessed August, 2015.

Artists from New Jersey from Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.

Artists from Patterson New Jersey from the City of Paterson. Accessed August, 2015.

Fred Noyes: Paintings is a 2017 exhibit at the Noyes Museum of Artwhich says: "Following a move to New Jersey in 1933, Noyes seemed to be inspired by Paul Cezanne's analytical flat planes, as well as the bright primitive color and passionate brush strokes employed by Fauvist artists Andre Derain and Henri Matisse. In the early '70s Fred's artistic style changed dramatically. His new abstract works were vivacious, rhythmic and colorful, conveying the joy of life, evocative of the work of Spanish artist Joan Miro. Filled with lush color and whimsical forms, these paintings were singularly Fred Noyes and uniquely southern New Jersey." Accessed 6/17

George Inness: Gifts from Frank and Katherine Martucci is an exhibition hosted by The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts from June 9 through September 8, 2013. The Institute describes the exhibition as follows: "In the 1880s, the American artist George Inness (1825-1894) developed his signature style: painting softly modeled, ethereal landscapes that sought to evoke a mood or atmosphere. These pictures were grounded in reality, many of them inspired by the countryside near the artist's home in Montclair, New Jersey. Yet Inness sought to go beyond the limits of realistic representation to express the spiritual essence of the natural world. Inspired by the writings of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, Inness struggled to represent, as he put it, the "great spiritual principle of harmony-harmony in form, harmony in color, the general harmony arising from the relation of things to one another." This exhibition celebrates the Clark's recent acquisition of eight late paintings by Inness, the gift of Frank and Katherine Martucci of New York. Together with the two canvases acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark in 1946 and 1955, these magnificent landscapes demonstrate how Inness experimented with color, composition, and painterly technique in an attempt to present a vision of the natural world that transcends its physical appearance." Accessed 9/23

Hangout - New Jersey Artists. Accessed August, 2015.

New Jersey Artists from State of New Jersey official website. Accessed August, 2015.

New Jersey (sampling of artists and works connected to state) from askArt. Accessed August, 2015.

Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from The New Jersey Historical Society. Accessed August, 2015.

What Exit? The New Jersey Spirit: Photographs by Timothy White is a 2019 exhibit at the Newark Museum which says: "For more than 30 years, White has captured the intimate and playful sides of legendary, actors, musicians and artists as well as the innocence of up and comers, demonstrating an uncanny ability to incorporate an entire narrative into a single image." Also see artist's website Accessed 4/20

Books, listed by year of publication, with most recently published book listed first:

Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity, by Meredith Arms Bzdak, Douglas Petersen. Contributor Douglas Petersen. Published by Rutgers University Press, 1999. ISBN 0813527007, 9780813527000. 214 pages. Product Description: "This text examines the past 150 years of the commissioning of outdoor art in the state of New Jersey. It contains essays that profile the state's 100 most significant works and their creators, telling the stories behind them.. From the Back Cover: New Jersey boasts more than 700 public sculptures. By surveying these works as a group, we learn who helped to shape New Jersey, what events we considered significant, and how we hope we will be remembered. Public Sculpture in New Jersey examines 150 years of past and current patterns in the commissioning and placement of outdoor art in the Garden State. The book contains essays that profile 100 of the state's most significant works as well as the artists who created them, and features 84 magnificent photographs that document these works, capturing the effects of time and the environment on each sculpture. Bzdak and Petersen selected these works for the variety of stories they tell and for their range of artistic expression, from traditional to contemporary, rather than focusing only on the best-known or most visible works of public sculpture. By telling the stories behind the sculptures, the book captures New Jersey's history, especially history that may not be well known but that conveys significant information about how our predecessors lived and the official images they sought to leave behind." (text courtesy of Amazon.com) (right: front cover of Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity. image courtesy of Google Books)

Montclair Art Museum. Published 1997 by Montclair Art Museum. Artist colonies. 35 pages. ISBN:0936489553. Exhibition catalog.

The Montclair Art Colony, Past and Present: February 4-April 13, 1997, the ..., by Montclair Art Museum, Diane Pietrucha Fischer, Gail Stavitsky,

New Jersey Arts, by Patricia Herold. 189 pages. Publisher: Rutgers University Press (December 1990). ISBN-10: 0813515548. ISBN-13: 978-0813515540

Public Art in New Jersey During the Period of the American Renaissance, by Museums Council of New Jersey, Nancy Einreinhofer, Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts, Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts. Published by Museums Council of New Jersey, 1990. 96 pages

New Jersey Water Color Society 1938-1988: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, by Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey Watercolor Society, New Jersey Watercolor Society, Montclair Art Museum, Noyes Museum, Noyes Museum, Monmouth Museum, Monmouth Museum. Published 1988 by Montclair Art Museum. Watercolor painting, American. 64 pages. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Montclair Art Museum, Nov. 13, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989; the Noyes Museum, Jan. 22-Mar. 6, 1989, and the Monmouth Museum, Apr. 30-June 4, 1989.

The Public Monuments & Sculpture of Morristown, New Jersey, by Virginia L. Bostick, Morris County Free Library, Morris County Free Library. Published by New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 1978. 32 pages

New Jersey Arts and Crafts: The Colonial Expression, by Monmouth Museum. Monmouth Museum (1972)

Montclair Artists, 1868-1968, by Montclair Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum. Published 1968 by Montclair Art Museum. 10 pages. Catalog of an exhibition held Mar. 24-Apr. 28, 1968.

Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey, by William H. Gerdts. Published by Van Nostrand, 1964. 276 pages

_New Jersey Art in Retrospect:_Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture at the New Jersey State Museum, Department of Education of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey : from February 12 Through June 18, 1961, by New Jersey State Museum, Published by New Jersey State Museum, 1961. 20 pages

The American painting collection of the Montclair Art Museum, by Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Hirschl & Adler Galleries. Published 1961. Painting, American. 68 pages. On cover: The Hirschl & Adler Galleries present the exhibition Montclair in Manhattan; a selection of American paintings on loan from the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, November 7-25, 1961. (possibly pubished by Hirschl & Adler Galleries)

Early New Jersey Artists: 18th and 19th Centuries: March 7th-May 19th, the Newark Museum, 1957, by Newark Museum. Published by Newark Museum, 1957. 30 pages

Art in New Jersey from 1776 to 1876, By Montclair Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum. Published by Montclair Art Museum, 1945. 8 pages

_Art and Artists in New Jersey,_by Lolita Flockhart. Publisher: C.P. Hoagland Company (1938)

Artists in Amboy: George Inness, Edward Kemeys, Vittorio A. Ciani, F. Luis Mora, Lindsay Morris Sterling, by Woman's Club of Perth Amboy, Woman's Club of Perth Amboy. Published by [Woman's Club of Perth Amboy, 1925. 33 pages. "One hundred and ninety-nine copies were printed to be sold."-- verso of t.p. (text courtesy of Google Books)

Articles:

Roy Pedersen: "Impressionist Painters of the New Jersey Shore" American Art Review September-October 2003 (Volume XV, Number 5)

Gail Stavitsky: "The Montclair Art Museum" American Art Review July-August 2002 (Volume XIV, Number 4)

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