Art in Wisconsin - Artists from Wisconsin, Arts Centers in Wisconsin, Monuments and Memorials in Wisconsin, Outdoor Sculptures in Wisconsin (Paperback)

Chapters: Artists From Wisconsin, Arts Centers in Wisconsin, Monuments and Memorials in Wisconsin, Outdoor Sculptures in Wisconsin, Eastman Johnson, Esther Bubley, Lynda Barry, David Lenz, the Boy With the Leaking Boot, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Joyce Carlson, Donald Stoltenberg, Arthur Thrall, Roy Staab, Vinnie Ream, Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Karl Priebe, Charles Radtke, George New, Don Balke, Thomasita Fessler, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Michael Velliquette, Helen Farnsworth Mears, Riversculpture , America's Black Holocaust Museum, Forevertron, Cleopatra's Wedge, Pauline Jacobus, Per Lysne, John Nelson Battenberg, George Pollard, Ernest Viggo Almquist, Sheboygan Hmong Memorial, Tom Uttech. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 - April 5, 1906) was an American painter, and Co-Founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. Best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people, he also painted portraits of prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His later works often show the influence of the 17th century Dutch masters whom he studied while living in The Hague, and he was even known as The American Rembrandt in his day. Eastman Johnson - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Ralph Waldo Emerson - each Crayon and Chalk on Paper 21 x 19 in. oval - 1846Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine, the eighth and last child of Philip Carrigan Johnson (Secretary of State of Maine 1840, and Mary Kimball Chandler (born in New Hampshire, 18 October 1796, married 1818). His eldest brother Commodore Philip Carrigan Johnson Jr. Eastman Johnson ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=77420