The Painter's Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art by Howard, Hugh - 2009

Bloomsbury Publishing USA. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Bloomsbury Publishing USA. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Bloomsbury Press, 2009-02-03. Hardcover. Good.

Bloomsbury Press, 2009-02-03T00:00:01Z. hardcover. Very Good. 103x19x152. hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, creased corner on back dust jacket flap, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders

Bloomsbury Press, 2009-02-03. 1. Hardcover. Used:Good.

2009. Hardcover. Very Good/very good.

Bloomsbury Press, February 2009. Hardcover. Used - very good.

Bloomsbury Press, February 2009. Hardcover. Used - very good. Inscribed on title page.

New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009. xix, 297 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. On the painter Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)) who portrayed George Washington. "When George Washington was born, the New World had virtually no artists. Over the course of his life and career, a cultural transformation would occur. Virtually everyone regarded Washington as America's indispensable man, and the early painters and sculptors were no exception. Hugh Howard brings to life the founding fathers of American painting, and the elusive Washington himself, through the history of their portraits. We meet Charles Willson Peale, the comrade-in-arms; John Trumbull, the aristocrat; Benjamin West, the mentor; and Gilbert Stuart, the brilliant wastrel and most gifted painter of his day. Howard's narrative traces Washington's interaction with these and other artists, while… Read More