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Robert Havell Jr

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Robert Havell, Jr. (1793 - 1878) was active/lived in New York.  Robert Havell Jr is known for Engraving, topographic landscape, wildlife.

Born in Reading, England, Robert Havell was the son of an engraver, and was expected to follow that profession.  Fulfilling his destiny, he is remembered for  his aquatint engraving of all but the first 10 plates of John James Audubon's Birds of America.  He first visited Audubon in 1839 in New York City and traveled and sketched the countryside in a homemade horse-drawn trailer, and together they had skills that were well met.  He also did artwork in oil and watercolor in Hudson River style with Luminism.  However, he preferred to think of himself as an engraver.

Until 1841, he lived in Brooklyn and in 1842 his travel-weary wife established a house for the family in Ossining (Sing Sing) on the Hudson River, and he later, 1857, moved to Tarrytown, living there to his death in 1878.  During this time he did landscape painting that in style and subject matter fit the criteria for being Hudson River School painting. Among his tit   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1617 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  51
Magazine References:  8

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8 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Robert Havell, Jr.
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
American Art Review Audubon's Dream Realized: "The Birds of America" October 2005 Owens, Carlotta J Yes
American Artist Nuts & Bolts August 2004 Editors, American Artist No
American Art Review Historic Deerfield June 2004 Friary, Donald R Yes
The Magazine Antiques Charles Dickens's First Visit to September 2003 Deak, Gloria Yes
Wildlife Art Curator's Critique March 2003 Klein, Carole Yes
The Magazine Antiques The Making of Audubon's The Birds o November 2002 Goddu, Joseph Yes
Wildlife Art Portrait of a Collection November 1994 Wilkinson, Todd Yes
51 Book References for Robert Havell, Jr.
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
2002 Goddu, Joseph John James Audubon& Robert Havell Artist's Proofs for The Birds of America
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-75 329 Yes
1994 Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815 628 No
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1991 Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro) Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840
(Exhibition catalog)		 136 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1990 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Counterpoint Two Centuries of American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 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 Susan Sheehan Inc American Masterworks on Paper 1800-1960 104 No
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
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 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1981 Hirschl & Adler Galleries America in Print 1796-1941
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1980 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875 323 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Myers, Fred The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK) 106 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Kennedy Galleries/Israel Sack Age of the Revolution and Early Republic in Fine and Decorative Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
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
1977 Sweeney, J Gray Themes in American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1976 Deak, Gloria/James Flexner American Views Prospects and Vistas 134 Yes
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 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 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Howat, John K; James Biddle (Preface); Carl Carmer (Foreward) The Hudson River and Its Painters 207 Yes
1972 Wunderlich, Rudolf G; Lawrence A. Fleischman American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1971 Kennedy Galleries American Masters 18th to 20th Centuries
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1968 Dickson, Harold E Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap
(Exhibition catalog)		 234 No
1968 Genesco, S U College, New York Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 No
1967 Kennedy Galleries Reality, Romanticism, Realism Two Centuries of American Painting 60 No
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Los Angeles County Museum American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 143 Yes
1965 Gardner, Albert and S Field American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum 284 No
1963 Biddle, James American Art From American Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 No
1958 Jones, Agnes Halsey Rediscovered Painters of Upstste New York/1700-1875 80 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1953 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union 0 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1950 U S National Capital S C American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission)
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 No
1948 Born, Wolfgang American Landscape Painting An Interpretation 228 No
1945 Sweet, Frederick A The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 No
1943 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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