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Thomas Waterman Wood

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Thomas Waterman Wood (1823 - 1903) was active/lived in New York, Kentucky.  Thomas Wood is known for Genre, portrait, and figure painting, etching.

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 Thomas Waterman Wood, in the company of William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham, is one of America's first artists to find the black man a suitable subject for portrait and genre painting and to portray the black with dignity. Spending several years in the South immediately preceding and during the War Between the States, Wood developed a sympathy for blacks and their dream of freedom. Significantly, Wood may have been the first white American painter to depict free blacks on contrast to the enslaved servants who had appeared as accessory figures in their masters' portraits as early as the eighteenth century.

Wood was born in Montpelier, Vermont, November 12, 1823. The family was not wealthy, and the young Wood was obliged to work in his father's carpentry shop. He spent some time as a youth in Boston, where he had relatives, and there he may have studied with portraitist Chester Harding. Embarking upon his own career as an artist, he worked as a portrait painter in Qu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6596 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  74
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Thomas Waterman Wood
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Fine Art Connoisseur At Either End of the Market January 2007 Editor Yes
American Art Review Springfield Art Museums June 2004 Haskell, Heather R Yes
The Magazine Antiques Group Portraits in Picturing Americ April 2001 Connor, Holly Pyne Yes
Southwest Art The Art of Pastel April 2001 Handell, Albert and Anita West Yes
Art & Auction The Quiet Americans November 2000 Wallis, Stephen Yes
American Art Review At Home With Art December 1995 Carbone, Teresa A Yes
American Art Review Sharing Your Paintings August 1994 Davies, Thomas Yes
74 Book References for Thomas Waterman Wood
Year Author Title Pages Color
2020 Payne, Warren Black and White: Kentucky Prints and Printmakers from the Collection of Warren and Julie Payne 136 No
2015 Pollack, Deborah C. Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South 400 Yes
2008 Pennington, Estill Curtis Kentucky The Master Painters 0 Yes
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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 Austin, Robert Michael Artists of the Litchfield Hills
(Exhibition catalog)		 132 Yes
2003 Editor: Spanierman Gallery Art for the New Collector II Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1993 Holzer, Harold/Mark E Neely Jr Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory The Civil War in Art 336 Yes
1993 Weber, Bruce The Apple of America The Apple in 19th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1992 Lublin, Mary American Selections 1850-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 163 Yes
1991 Baekland, Frederick Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1991 Howat, John K (foreward) American Watercolors From Metropolitan Museum of Art 204 Yes
1991 Johns, Elizabeth American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life 250 Yes
1991 Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 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 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gustafson, Donna (others) Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1990 McElroy, Guy C Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 190 Yes
1989 Blaugrund, Annette Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1989 Bloch, E Maurice Faces and Figures in American Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 99 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville) The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran 254 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Joslyn Art Museum The Rural Vision France and America in the Late 19th Century 94 No
1986 Edwards, Lee M; Jan Seidler Ramirez; Timothy Anglin Burgard Domestic Bliss Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 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
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Johns, Elizabeth; William Elder III, Josephine Withers, et all Maryland: 350 Years of Art & Architecture (University of Maryland Architecture Department Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 248 No
1983 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Hirschl & Adler Galleries America in Print 1796-1941
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1980 Galleries, Hirschl and Adler American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980 112 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 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 Richards, Jane L American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
1977 Benjamin, S G W Our American Artists 1879 and 1881 (reprints in one volume) 145 No
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 Yes
1976 Coen, Rena Neumann Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota 1820-1914 146 Yes
1976 Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923) 119 No
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 No
1974 Hills, Patricia The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Garrett, Wendell (others) The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century 412 No
1966 Los Angeles County Museum American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 143 Yes
1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1965 Burroughs, Alan Limners and Likenesses 246 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1945 Baltimore Museum of Art Two Hundred and Fifty Years (of) Painting in Maryland
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 No
1941 New York Historical Society American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures 367 No
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 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
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1909 Rathbun, Richard The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70 140 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
1879 Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele Art in America a Critical and Historical Sketch 214 No
1879 Sheldon, G W American Painters With Eighty-three Engraved Examples of Their Work 184 No
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