HOW TO JUDGE OF A PICTURE, FAMILIAR TALKS IN THE GALLERY WITH UNCRITICAL LOVERS OF ART by JOHN C. VAN DYKE - 1889

NEW YORK : CHAUTAUQUA PRESS, 1889 DARK BROWN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE, SLIGHT WEAR EDGES, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. GREAT DETAIL ABOUT PICTURES. 12 CHAPTERS. COLOR AND HARMONY, TONE AND GRADATION, LIGHT AND SHADE, PERSPECTIVE AND ATMOSPHERE, VALUES, TEXTURES AND QUALITIES, DRAWING AND FORM, COMPOSITION, THE OBJECT OF ART, IDEAS AND SUBJECTS, STYLE AND INDIVIDUALITY, OILS WATER COLORS PASTELS AND CONCLUSION. BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS. WONDERFUL BOOK FOR THE PICTURE LOVER. John Charles Van Dyke (1856–1932) was an American art historian and critic. He was born at New Brunswick, New Jersey, studied at Columbia, and for many years in Europe. He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1877, but never practiced law. In 1878, Van Dyke was appointed the librarian of the Gardner Sage Library at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and in 1891 as a professor of art history at Rutgers College (now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.