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Alvan Fisher

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Alvan Fisher (1792 - 1863) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Alvan Fisher is known for Landscape, animal, genre and portrait painting.

Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting.  He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting.  However, his real love was the depiction of animals, and he was the first American artist to paint race horses..

Fisher was a student in Boston of John Ritto Penniman, ornamental painter.  He first went to Europe in 1825, and then set up his studio in Boston where prominent artists such as Washington Allston, Chester Harding and Asher Durand became his good friends.

His records show that he sold nearly 1000 paintings between 1826 and 1863, indicative of his astuteness as a businessman.  He traveled throughout the United States, recording observations in his notebooks.  He did a number of Niagara Falls views, with diminished figures against the overwhelming natural sc   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1406 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Alvan Fisher

   Publications  Book References:  103
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Alvan Fisher
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques The John Wilmerding Collection September 2004 Anderson, Nancy K Yes
American Art Review The Paintings of Alvan Fisher August 2001 Adelson, Fred B. Yes
American Art Review The Farnsworth Art Museum June 2000 Gerdts, William (essays) etc. Yes
American Art Review Treasures from the Smithsonian April 2000 Severens, Martha R Yes
The Magazine Antiques Australian & American Landscape September 1998 Ellis, Amy Yes
103 Book References for Alvan Fisher
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Vose Galleries, Boston (essays by Rachel Beaupre and Courtney Kopplin) Defining A Nation: Paintings of Nineteenth-Century America, Featuring the Wheeler Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 25 Yes
2006 The Vose Family Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors A Compendium of Favorite Articles from the First Twelve Issues 65 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Chambers, Bruce (essay) Maine: A Legacy in Painting, 1830 to the Present (Spanierman Galleries Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Vose, Marcia (editor) Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline 38 Yes
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
1997 Driscoll, John Paul All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1995 Fairley, John The Art of the Horse 192 Yes
1995 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-75 329 Yes
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor
(Exhibition catalog)		 266 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1992 Kammen, Michael Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture 192 No
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1991 Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll. Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam 271 Yes
1991 Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro) Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840
(Exhibition catalog)		 136 Yes
1991 Johns, Elizabeth American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life 250 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
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 South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown Sport in Art From American Museums
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1988 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings 1160 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 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 Adamson, Jeremy Elwell Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes 1697-1901
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1985 Kloss, William/C C Eldredge Treasures from the National Museu of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 254 Yes
1984 Anderson, Patricia The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 90 Yes
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Hassrick, Peter H Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute 127 Yes
1984 Wilmerding, John The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1983 Johnston, Sona K American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art 187 Yes
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 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 Gerdts, William H The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875 323 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1980 Troyen, Carol The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 204 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 Teitz, Richard Stuart American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum 118 No
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 Yes
1976 Riggs, Timothy A The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876 95 No
1976 Ross, Barbara T American Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University 132 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
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 Wadsworth Atheneum The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes 96 Yes
1975 Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay) American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum 182 Yes
1975 Taylor, Joshua C To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art 117 Yes
1974 Goodyear, Frank H American Paintings (in) The Rhode Island Historical Society 116 Yes
1974 Hills, Patricia The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1974 Parry, Ellwood The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art 189 No
1974 Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay) 19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1973 Hills, Patricia The American Frontier Images and Myths
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)		 188 No
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 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 Hawes, Louis The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Bernard Danenberg Galleries Our American Heritage Loan Exhibition New Britain Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 36 No
1968 Boston University Boston Painters 1720-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 70 No
1968 Genesco, S U College, New York Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 No
1968 Mattatuck Historical Society The Connecticut Artists Collection 84 No
1968 Wilmerding, John History of American Marine Painting 179 Yes
1968 Wilmerding, John American Marine Painting (2nd Edition) 204 Yes
1963 Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953 178 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1960 Pasadena Art Museum American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1953 Brooklyn, Museum American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection 48 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1947 Sears, Clara Endicott Hudson River Artists Highlights among the 280 No
1945 Sweet, Frederick A The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 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
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
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