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Edwin Austin Abbey

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Edwin Austin Abbey (1852 - 1911) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, New York / England.  Edwin Abbey is known for History illustration, figure and mural painting.

Edwin Austin Abbey was essentially the last in the line of American artists-including Benjamin West, Mather Brown, John Singleton Copley, and Washington Allston-who went to England to pursue history painting and worked their way up the professional ladder to receive the highest honors at the English court. The path he took, however, was distinctly different from his artistic forebears.

Abbey didn't start to paint in oil until he was 40 years of age. Before that time, he had distinguished himself as an illustrator, becoming one of that field's most celebrated talents at a time when the publishing industry and its use of commercial illustration rapidly ascended to prominence. Born in Philadelphia, Abbey first studied art at the age of fourteen, when he took lessons from Isaac L. Williams, a local portrait and landscape painter. Two years later, he entered the publishing firm of Van Ingen & Snyder, for whom he worked as an apprentice draftsman, and enrolled in night classes at   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 24310 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  114
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Edwin Austin Abbey
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Market Focus May 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
The Magazine Antiques The American Wing January 2000 Howat, John, Kevin Avery Yes
American Art Review The Tile Club (1877-1887) December 1999 Pisano, Ronald G Yes
American Art Review Yale University Art Gallery June 1997 Weltzein, Marie N Yes
American Art Review Sharing Your Paintings August 1994 Davies, Thomas Yes
114 Book References for Edwin Austin Abbey
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Katlan, Alexander W. Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1940-1951 and Water Color Exhibition Records 1900-1951 623 No
2007 Katlan, Alexander W. (editor) The Black and White Exhibitions of the Salmagundi Sketch Club 1878 to 1887: A Guide to Etchings, Engravings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Oils and Monotypes 272 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2003 Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal 252 Yes
2001 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators 452 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Pisano, Ronald; M Apicello The Tile Club: And the Aesthetic Movement in America 112 Yes
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1996 Van Hook, Bailey Angels of Art Women and Art in American Society 1876-1914 287 No
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1994 Wallach, Miriam and Ira Unfaded Pageant Edwin Austin Abbey's Shakespearean Subjects 101 Yes
1993 Ayers, William S Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1992 Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor) American Icons 390 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Gilbert Anne American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide 1991 Yes
1991 Howat, John K (foreward) American Watercolors From Metropolitan Museum of Art 204 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Halsby, Julian Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters 223 Yes
1989 Bolger, Doreen (others) American Pastels In the Metropolitan Museum of Art 247 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum 94 Yes
1987 Kiehl, David W American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art 199 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
(Exhibition catalog)		 314 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Arts of the American Renaissance
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 Yes
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1984 Reed, Walt and Roger The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration 355 Yes
1983 Detroit Institute of the Arts The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1983 Ministere de la Culture Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 378 Yes
1983 National Academy of Design Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1982 Johnson, Fridolf Treasury of American Pen-and-Ink Illustration 1881 to 1938 149 No
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Harthan, John The History of the Illustrated Book The Western Tradition 288 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Burke, Doreen Bolger American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64 479 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1978 Morgan, H Wayne The New Muses Art in American Culture 1865-1920 232 Yes
1978 Perlman, Bennard B Golden Age of American Illustration F R Gruger and His Circle 232 Yes
1978 Trumble, Alfred Representative Works of Contemporary American Artists 139 No
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Hills, Patricia Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 194 Yes
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 Yes
1977 Sheldon, George William Recent Ideals of Americn Art 176 No
1976 Brindle, John V/Sally Secrest American Cornucopia 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1976 Quick, Michael American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute)
(Exhibition catalog)		 158 Yes
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 No
1975 Heckscher Museum American Painting 32 Yes
1975 Margolin, Victor American Poster Renaissance 224 Yes
1975 National Academy of Design A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 262 No
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1973 Yale University Art Gallery Edwin Austin Abbey 1852-1911
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Irwin, Grace Trail-Blazers of American Art 228 No
1970 Caffin, Charles H American Masters of Painting 195 No
1970 Mather, Frank Jewett Jr Estimates in Art 16 Essays on American Painters/in 19th Century 337 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Ray, Frederick E O! Say Can You See The Story of America through Great Paintings 189 Yes
1969 Garrett, Wendell (others) The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century 412 No
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Pitz, Henry C The Brandywine Tradition 252 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1966 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s 272 Yes
1965 Burroughs, Alan Limners and Likenesses 246 No
1961 Hofer, Philip The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 In Western Europe and the United States
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1959 Marshall, Francis Magazine Illustration 96 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1952 Corcoran Gallery of Art Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1950 Metropolitan Museum 100 American Painters of the 20th Century 132 Yes
1941 Saint-Gaudens, Homer The American Artist and His Times 332 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1939 Cortissoz, Royal (forward) Drawings & Pastels by E A Abbey (exhibition catalogue)
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1938 Bolton, Theodore American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists 290 No
1937 Caffin, Charles H The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America 396 No
1936 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Main Currents in the Development of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1925 Pennell, Joseph The Adventures of an Illustrator Mostly in Following His Authors in America & Europe 372 No
1923 Cortissoz, Royal American Artists 363 No
1923 McSpadden, J Walker Famous Painters of America 418 No
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1921 Lucas, E.V. Abbey, Edwin Austin Royal Academician, The Record 518 Yes
1917 Guthrie, Anna Lorraine American Art A Study Outline 63 No
1916 Brinton, Christian Impressions of the Art at the Panama Pacific Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)		 203 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1913 Blashfield, Edwin Howland Mural Painting in America 312 No
1898 Hoyt, Deristhe L. The World's Painters and Their Pictures 272 No
1879 Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele Art in America a Critical and Historical Sketch 214 No
Tenenbaum, F. (Curator) American Painting: The Heckscher Museum 32 Yes
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