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Imprint Annotated Bibliography - 1985
66. Hunt, David C. "Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier." Vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 1985), 11-19.
The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, has among its collections the four hundred watercolors and sketches of Karl Bodmer that document the scientific expedition of Prince Maximilian of Wied from 1832 to 1834. Hunt clarifies some of the misconceptions about Bodmer and writes about the journey and the circumstances surrounding the publication of the narrative and its accompanying atlas volume with its eighty plates. Hunt also discusses various states of the prints and modern restrikes from the plates, together with comments about the coloring of the prints. A full description of the Bodmer collection is contained in Karl Bodmer's America published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1984.
67. O'Gorman, James F. "War, Slavery, and Intemperance in the Book Illustrations of Hammatt Billings." Vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 1985), 2-11.
O'Gorman provides biographical information about Billings, the architect-illustrator (1818-1874), and then focuses on the themes of the Mexican War, slavery, and intemperance which dominated Billings' oeuvre. Among the books illustrated by Billings was Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin of 1852. O'Gorman closes his essay by summarizing the other genres which Billings illustrated.
68. Shadwell, Wendy. "The Statue of Liberty: A Century in the Graphic Arts." Vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 1985), 20-27.
After presenting a brief history of the Statue of Liberty, finally erected in New York Harbor in 1886, Shadwell surveys depictions of it from 1883 through 1941.
69. Esko, Claudia T. "The Influence of Whistler on American Painter-Etchers." Vol. 10, no. 2 (Autumn 1985), 12-20.
Esko chronicles Whistler's use of etching and his particular style. Among his American followers were Joseph Pennell, Frank Duveneck, Otto Bacher, Charles Abel Corwin, Henry Twachtman, Julian Alden Weir, and Childe Hassam. Their stylistic relationships are discussed.
70. Larson, Judy L. "Stuff and Nonsense: Humor in American Childrens' Book Illustration." Vol. 10, no. 2 (Autumn 1985), 2-11.
This article discusses nonsense literature for children, of which the earliest examples were published in England. Some Americans, Samuel Goodrich in particular, railed against nonsense books for children in the mid-nineteenth century. Mary Mapes Dodge brought new vitality to American childrens' literature beginning in 1874. The works of Palmer Cox, A.B. Frost, Frank Burgess, and Peter Newell are discussed.
71. Reaves, Wendy Wick. "A Decade of Print Collecting at the National Portrait Gallery." Vol. 10, no. 2 (Autumn 1985), 21-28.
The Print Department at the National Portrait Gallery was established in 1974 with a mission to collect, research, and exhibit portrait prints of Americans. Reaves describes some of the most significant acquisitions of the preceding decade, which include 761 engravings by St. Memin, 53 lithographs by Charles Fenderich, and many individual prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The collection also includes portrait prints of the twentieth century, such as fine etchings by Anders Zorn and Childe Hassam. Caricature portraits have also been eagerly sought by the Portrait Gallery, and Reaves is seeking contemporary images as well.
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