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William Trost Richards

William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island.  William Richards is known for Marine-seascape, landscape and botanic painting.

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His works are located at:
Newport Art Museum:
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1. Oil painting, "Off the South Shore" (1896) (acc.# 922.002)
2. Oil on board, "New Jersey Beach" (1870) (acc.# 954.001.1)
3. Oil on board, "Sea Waves in a Storm" (1870) (acc.# 954.001.2)
4. Watercolor, "Sunset Light" (1894) (acc.# 954.001.3)
5. Pencil drawing, "Trees and a Woodland House" (1860) (acc.# 954.001.4)
6. Pencil drawing, "Trees" (1860) (acc.# 954.001.5)
7. Pencil drawing, "Tree Study" (1860) (acc.# 954.001.6)
8. Gouache/watercolor, "Haystack, Late Afternoon" (ca. 1860) (acc.# 9976.001.1)
9. Oil on board, "Rocky Coast, Newport" (acc.# 976.001.2
10. Oil on board, "The Harbor Bar" (ca. 1870) (acc.# 980.002.1)
11. Oil on board, "Beach Study in Pink and Blue" (ca. 1870) (acc.# 980.002.2)
12. Oil on panel, "The Shoal Water" (acc.# 991.014.75)
13. Oil on paper, "Bethlehem, Leigh Valley" (acc.# 991.014.76)
14. Watercolor, "Canaan,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 20007 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about William Trost Richards

   Publications  Book References:  158
Magazine References:  29

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29 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Trost Richards
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Coastline and Clipper Ships August 2006 Hargreaves, Gayle Yes
Fine Art Connoisseur William Trost Richards July 2006 Vareika, William Yes
American Art Review Drawings & Watercolors, Hood Museum March 2005 MacAdam, Barbara J Yes
American Art Review Envisioning New England December 2004 Grinnell & Hunter Yes
The Magazine Antiques The John Wilmerding Collection September 2004 Anderson, Nancy K Yes
Art & Antiques Ship to Shore July 2004 McClelland, James Yes
American Artist Painting from Sea to Shining Sea June 2004 Doherty, M Stephen No
American Art Review American Masters: The John Wilmerdi April 2004 Kelly, Franklin Yes
American Art Review The Golden Anniversary of the Sloan December 2003 Brauer, Richard H Yes
American Art Review Monhegan Island Artists: A 150-Year August 2003 Deci, Edward L Yes
American Art Review Images of Northwest Connecticut June 2003 Smith, Ann Yes
ARTnews Parrots, Profiles, and the Pict... October 2002 Greben, Deidre Stein Yes
American Art Review William Trost Richards & the Artist August 2002 Ferber, L. and Welsh, C. Yes
The Magazine Antiques John Brown's Grave and other Civil July 2002 Ferber, Linda s. Yes
American Art Review Hamilton College's Alumni Collector April 2002 Shapiro, Michael E Yes
The Magazine Antiques Queries April 2001 Kaynor, Grace W. No
American Art Review Bowdoin College Museum of Art June 2000 Dimond, V Scott Yes
American Art Review The Farnsworth Art Museum June 2000 Gerdts, William (essays) etc. Yes
Art & Auction Sales Watch March 2000 EBAY / SOTHEBYS.COM No
The Magazine Antiques The American Wing January 2000 Howat, John, Kevin Avery Yes
American Art Review American Paintings in Georgia February 1999 Keyes, Donald No
American Art Review William Trost Richards: Rediscovere December 1998 Ferber, William Yes
The Magazine Antiques Australian & American Landscape September 1998 Ellis, Amy Yes
American Art Review Masters of Color & Light June 1998 Ferber, Linda S Yes
American Art Review Two Centuries of American Drawing December 1997 Dreishpoon, Douglas Yes
The Magazine Antiques Paintings of the Adirondack July 1997 Welsh, Caroline Yes
American Art Review Twenty Years of Art December 1996 Goley, Mary Anne Yes
American Art Review American Works on Paper December 1996 Price, Charles Yes
American Artist Exhibitions/W T Richards August 1995 Feliciano, Kristina Yes
158 Book References for William Trost Richards
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 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Kelly, Franklin American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
168 Yes
2004 Pyle, Amy (Spanierman Gallery) Art for the New Collector III Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
2003 Austin, Robert Michael Artists of the Litchfield Hills
(Exhibition catalog)
132 Yes
2003 Deci, Edward L Monhegan Island Artists A 150 Year Tradition (1858-2003)
(Exhibition catalog)
40 Yes
2002 Ferber, L. S. and Welsh, C.M. In Search of a National Landscape William Trost Richards and the Artists' Adirondacks
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2002 Mis, M.S. How to Draw Pennsylvania's Sights and Symbols 0 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn The Nineteenth Century: Rediscovering American Painters (Vose Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)
40 Yes
1999 Naeve, Milo (bios) 150 Years of Philadelphia Painters and Paintings: Selections From 47 Yes
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1997 Driscoll, John Paul All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1997 Vose Galleries Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two 35 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)
512 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1994 Editors American Painting Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia
(Exhibition catalog)
56 Yes
1994 High Museum of Art American Paintings at the High Museum of Art 216 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1994 Wilmerding, John The Artist's Mount Desert American Painters on the Maine Coast 195 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
408 Yes
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1993 Miller, Davd C (editor) American Iconology 344 No
1993 Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor
(Exhibition catalog)
266 Yes
1993 Weber, Bruce The Apple of America The Apple in 19th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)
495 Yes
1992 Leeds, Valerie Ann Hidden Treasures American Paintings from Florida Colllections
(Exhibition catalog)
72 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 Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
204 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1991 Wilmerding, John American Views Essays on American Art 357 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 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Robert Schwarz American and European Paintings (Schwarz Galleries, Philadelphia)
(Exhibition catalog)
32 Yes
1990 Robertson, Bruce Reckoning with Winslow Homer His Late Paintings and Their Influence
(Exhibition catalog)
196 Yes
1990 Spanierman Gallery The Spencer Collection of American Art/An Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1989 Blaugrund, Annette Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)
304 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
1989 Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro) At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
140 Yes
1989 Minks, Louise The Hudson River School The Landscape Art (of 25 artists) 112 Yes
1989 Nelson, Harold B Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape 111 Yes
1989 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Painting 64 Yes
1989 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper III
(Exhibition catalog)
150 Yes
1989 Wilmerding, John American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875
(Exhibition catalog)
330 Yes
1988 Berry-Hill Galleries American Paintings V 1988 180 Yes
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
472 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Hall, Audrey A Century of Philadelphia Artists Frank S. Schwarz & Son
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1988 Howat, John K American Paradise World of the Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)
346 Yes
1988 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper II
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1988 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art 208 Yes
1987 Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum 94 Yes
1987 Strickler, Susan (editor) American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection 232 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 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Munson Williams-Proctor Inst Two Hundred Years of American Art 101 Yes
1986 Novak, Barbara Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection 326 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 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Dreishpoon, Douglas (essay) American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints (Hirschl & Adler Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)
63 Yes
1985 Driscoll, John /J Howat John Frederick Kensett An American Master
(Exhibition catalog)
208 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Ferber, Linda S.; William H. Gerdts The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites (The Brooklyn Museum)
(Exhibition catalog)
288 Yes
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Adams, Henry 25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
120 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists 288 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1984 Foshay, Ellen M Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art 202 Yes
1984 Harding, Jonathan P Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure 185 No
1983 Faison, S Lane The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
1983 Yes
1983 Gerdts, William H Down Garden Paths The Floral Environment in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1983 Johnston, Sona K American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art 187 Yes
1983 Murphy, Frank (Essay) The Book of Nature: American Painters & the Natural Sublime Hudson River Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
112 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1982 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947
(Exhibition catalog)
106 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Owens, Gwendolyn Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
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 Kennedy Galleries A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors 81 Yes
1981 Kennedy Galleries Art of America Selected Painting and Sculpture, 1770-1981 64 Yes
1981 Morrin, Peter; Eric Zafran; Ann Schierman American Landscape Paintings: Selections From the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
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
1981 Vigtel, Gudmund American Landscape Paintings From the High Museum (Catalogue for 1981 Traveling Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1981 Wilmerding, John; Linda Ayres, Earl Powell An American Perspective: Nineteenth Century Art From the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz
(Exhibition catalog)
180 Yes
1980 Archibald, E H H Dictionary of Sea Painters 455 Yes
1980 Novak, Barbara and Annette Blaugrund Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design 213 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)
325 Yes
1980 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art 180 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
1979 Springfield Library & Museum Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections 216 Yes
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1978 Kennedy Galleries The American View Art from 1770 to 1978
(Exhibition catalog)
108 Yes
1978 William Rockhill Nelson G of A Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 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 Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923) 119 No
1976 Marcus, George H. (Editor) Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
166 Yes
1976 McShine, Kynaston The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)
178 Yes
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1976 Virginia Museum American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
151 Yes
1976 Wadsworth Atheneum The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes 96 Yes
1975 Buckley, Charles E The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections 377 Yes
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Heckscher Museum American Painting 32 Yes
1975 National Academy of Design A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975
(Exhibition catalog)
262 No
1975 Stein, Roger B Seascape and the American Imagination
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1975 Taylor, Joshua C To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art 117 Yes
1973 Ferber, Linda S William Trost Richards American Landscape & Marine Painter 1833-1905
(Exhibition catalog)
105 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)
188 No
1972 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Faces and Places Changing Images of 19th Century America
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1971 Gerdts, William; Russell Burke American Still Life Painting 264 Yes
1971 Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
94 Yes
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1970 Howat, John K (others) 19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
220 Yes
1970 Marlor, Clark S The History of the Brooklyn Art Association with Index of Exhibitions
(Exhibition catalog)
0 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Wilmerding, John American Marine Painting (2nd Edition) 204 Yes
1968 Wunderlich, Rudolf (Introduction), American Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, Part Two The Nineteenth Century:1825-1890, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
76 No
1966 Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck History of Water Color in America 160 Yes
1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1964 Gerdts, William H Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey 276 No
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1956 King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
63 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 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 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
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)
281 No
1898 Hoyt, Deristhe L. The World's Painters and Their Pictures 272 No
1889 Van Dyke, John C How To Judge A Picture Familiar Talks in the Gallery 168 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
Tenenbaum, F. (Curator) American Painting: The Heckscher Museum 32 Yes
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