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Henry Ward Ranger

Henry Ward Ranger (1858 - 1915) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut.  Henry Ranger is known for Landscape painting, forest interiors.

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A key person in the establishment of the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony in 1899, Henry Ward Ranger is regarded as the leader of the Tonalist movement in America and was a leading painter in this country in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries.

He was born in Geneseo and raised in Syracuse, New York, and in 1873, enrolled in the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, where his father was a professor of photography and drawing.  Two years later, he became a re-toucher of paintings in his father's studio and did not earn a college degree. 

He also spent much time in New York City, where he was a writer of music criticism and visited galleries, where he had his first exposure to French Barbizon painting.  During much of the 1880s, he painted watercolors of marine subjects, and exhibited those in New York City, Boston, and Paris.
As a student in France, he became greatly interested in the Barbizon School of painters, and then a trip   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8631 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Henry Ward Ranger

   Publications  Book References:  84
Magazine References:  12

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12 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Henry Ward Ranger
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Florence Griswold House Restoration October 2006 Flynn, Tammi Yes
American Art Review Envisioning New England December 2004 Grinnell & Hunter Yes
American Art Review Early Years of the Lyme Art Association August 2002 Bond, Pamela G. Yes
American Art Review Paris 1900: The American School December 1999 Fischer, Diane P Yes
American Art Review Henry Ward Ranger August 1999 Becker, Jack Yes
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming July 1999 Ledes, Allison Eckardt Yes
Art & Antiques American Barbizon September 1998 Ross, Carolee Yes
American Art Review Florence Griswold Museum June 1997 Andersen, Jeffrey W Yes
American Art Review Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail June 1997 AR editors No
American Art Review Bruce Museum June 1997 Hall-Duncan, Nancy Yes
American Art Review Mattatuck Museum June 1997 Smith, Ann/F Chamberlain Yes
American Art Review Art Is Upon the Town May 1996 Schuster, Willa Yes
84 Book References for Henry Ward Ranger
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
2008 Fleming, Geoffrey K. and Sara Evans (Southold Historical Society) A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork 250 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
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
2005 Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.)
(Exhibition catalog)
200 Yes
2004 Cleveland, David Adams Intimate Landscapes: Charles Warren Eaton and the Tonalist Movement in American Art, 1880-1920
(Exhibition catalog)
114 Yes
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2003 Editor: Spanierman Gallery Art for the New Collector II Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
2003 Richter, Marianne; Wendy Greenhouse (Essays) Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection 308 Yes
2002 Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & Yount Pennsylvania Impressionism 340 Yes
2002 Old Lyme Art Association The Early Years Paintings from Private Connecticut Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
20 Yes
2002 Quasha, Jennifer How to Draw Connecticut's Sights and Symbols 0 Yes
2001 Peters, Lisa Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
2000 Florence Griswold Museum Henry Ward Ranger and the Humanized Landscape 64 No
2000 Riback, Estelle Henry Ward Ranger: Modulator of Harmonic Color 75 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Love, Richard H Carl W Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester 927 Yes
1999 Porter, Dean; Teresa Ebie Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950 400 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1994 Gerdts, William H Impressionist New York 224 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)
545 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll. Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam 271 Yes
1991 University Gallery-Delaware Brandywine Valley to the Bay Art from Private Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
161 Yes
1990 Danly, Susan Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from PAFA 91 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
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections 198 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945
(Exhibition catalog)
104 Yes
1987 Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)
120 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1984 Gerdts, William H American Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
336 Yes
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1982 Gerdts, William H (others) Tonalism An American Experience
(Exhibition catalog)
94 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1980 Burke, Doreen Bolger American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64 479 No
1980 Gerdts, William H American Impressionism: The Henry Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)
179 Yes
1980 Spencer, Harold; Susan Larkin, Jeffrey Andersen (Essays) Connecticut and American Impressionism (William Benton Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)
184 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)
322 Yes
1976 Chambers, Bruce W Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from
(Exhibition catalog)
93 Yes
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)
191 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Boyle, Richard American Impressionism 238 Yes
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
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1972 Hoopes, Donelson F The American Impressionists 160 Yes
1970 Cohen, Mildred Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)
0 No
1968 Mattatuck Historical Society The Connecticut Artists Collection 84 No
1965 Everson Museum of Art American Painting from 1830 63 Yes
1965 University of New Mexico Impressionism in America An Exhibition...U of New Mexico Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1948 Born, Wolfgang American Landscape Painting An Interpretation 228 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
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1917 Guthrie, Anna Lorraine American Art A Study Outline 63 No
1916 The Nebraska Art Association: Catalogue 22nd Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
15 No
1909 Rathbun, Richard The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70 140 No
1907 Fairchild, George Moore Jr. From My Quebec Scrap-Book 316 No
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