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James Bard

James Bard (1815 - 1897) was active/lived in New York.  James Bard is known for Steamboat portrait and marine painting.

Born in New York City, eight years after Robert Fulton sent the first steamboat up the Hudson River, James Bard saw and reflected in his marine paintings the industrial development of shipping in America.

He and his twin brother John Bard together painted more than 350 marine portraits, steamships and sailboats in the New York Harbor and on the Hudson River. Likely James did the outline sketches, and John filled in the color and backgrounds.

However, James quit working with John after 1849, and John died seven years later, but James kept painting, doing nearly 4000 works during his lifetime and leaving a record of nearly every steamship on the Hudson River during the second half of the 19th century.  He worked until the year of his death and died in White Plains, New York.

Although the paintings are rather primitive in their flat colors and perspective, the work is important to marine historians because of the accuracy and detail of the depictio   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3720 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about James Bard

   Publications  Book References:  48
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for James Bard
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Hudson River School at the New York Historical Society October 2005 Ferber, Linda & Vedder, Lee A Yes
Art & Auction (bitter) Sweet Charity April 2001 Vincent, Steven Yes
American Art Review Folk Art Traditions in America February 2001 Joyce, Henry Yes
American Art Review The Bard Brothers October 1997 Peluso, Anthony J Jr Yes
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming July 1997 Ledes, Allison Eckardt Yes
Art & Antiques Art of the High Seas November 1996 Kagen, Dick Yes
48 Book References for James Bard
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum) 573 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Vose, Marcia L. (editor) Vose Art Notes Tenth Anniversary Issue Art and Collecting in America: An Illustrated Timeline 37 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Lipman, Jean; Alice Winchester The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876 288 Yes
1997 Peluso, Anthony J The Bard Brothers Painting America Under Steam and Sail 175 Yes
1997 Peluso, Anthony J Jr. The Bard Brothers: Painting America Under Steam and Sail
(Exhibition catalog)
0 No
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1992 Chotner, Deborah American Naive Paintings (National Gallery Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)
668 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)
545 No
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Rumford, Beatrix American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits 449 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 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
1982 Bastedo, Russell (Introduction); John A. Kouwenhoven, (Essay) Brooklyn Before the Bridge: American Paintings from the Long Island Historical Society 137 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Archibald, E H H Dictionary of Sea Painters 455 Yes
1980 Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong American Folk Painters of Three Centuries 233 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Bishop, Robert Folk Painters of America 255 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Mathey, Francois American Realism 192 No
1978 Woodward, Richard B American Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
110 Yes
1976 Tillou, Peter Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People
(Exhibition catalog)
114 Yes
1976 Virginia Museum American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
151 Yes
1975 Ebert, John and Katherine American Folk Painters 225 Yes
1975 Smith, Bradley The U S A A History in Art 296 Yes
1975 Stein, Roger B Seascape and the American Imagination
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1974 Goodyear, Frank H American Paintings (in) The Rhode Island Historical Society 116 Yes
1972 Howat, John K; James Biddle (Preface); Carl Carmer (Foreward) The Hudson River and Its Painters 207 Yes
1970 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art 72 Yes
1970 Sullivan, Max (Foreward); Philip Chadwick Foster Smith American Ship Portraits & Marine Painting: Everson Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Brewington, M V and Dorothy The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum 530 Yes
1968 McLanathan, Richard The American Tradition in the Arts 492 No
1968 Wilmerding, John American Marine Painting (2nd Edition) 204 Yes
1968 Wilmerding, John History of American Marine Painting 179 Yes
1966 Black, Mary/Jean Lipman American Folk Painting 244 Yes
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1964 Kuh, Katherine Art in New York State New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
126 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
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