Celebrating Florida : works of art from the Vickers Collection

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Celebrating Florida : works of art from the Vickers Collection

Entry/Object ID

Library.2323

Tags

Library items added during March 2023, Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Celebrating Florida: Works of Art from the Vickers Collection by Gary Libby. Library copy has inscription that reads: To the Jacksonville Historical Society, in appreciation of your efforts to insure the preservation of our local and state history, Robbie & Sam Vickers, March, 1997. Copy 2. Illustrates in full color with a generous selection of paintings and works on paper by some of the world's most significant artists who came to Florida from 1823 to 1950 to capture the "Sunshine State." Of particular interest to students of Florida history are two essays by noted historians Wendell Garrett and Erik Robinson, who discuss the "creation of Florida" and its birth as a state in 1845. Essays on each artist present an aesthetic, historical, social, and cultural overview - designed to clarify the significance of the works of art presented in this first-ever collection of Florida-based art. Essays on each artist with bibliographies by Henry Adams, Gary R. Libby, James Murphy, Erik Robinson, and David Swoyer help to explain the significance of individual works and their place in Florida's history and artistic record." Artists include: Robert J. Curtis -- John Rogers Vinton -- Louis Mignot -- Xanthus R. Smith -- John Bunyan Bristol -- John Mooney -- George F. Higgins -- Edward Moran -- Alexander Helvig Wyant -- James Well Champney -- William Morris Hunt -- William Staples Drown -- Christian Eisele -- George Herbert McCord -- Thomas Moran --Martin Johnson Heade -- Joseph Jefferson IV -- Louis Comfort Tiffany -- William Aiken Walker -- Frank ShapleighPaul Frenzeny -- Robert S. Gorman -- George Inness -- William Lamb Picknell -- Adolph Robert Shulz -- Herman Herzog -- William Henry Hilliard -- Stephen J. Parrish -- Felix F. deCrano -- Abbot Fuller Graves -- George Cope -- Eliot Clark -- Arrah Lee Gaul -- Louis Jambor -- Ernest H. Lawson -- Franz Josef Bolinger -- Anthony Thieme -- William Glackens -- Louis Charles Vogt -- Jerry Farnsworth -- Jane Peterson -- Benson Boyd Moore -- George Washington Sully -- Seth Eastman -- George Harvey -- George Catlin -- Granville Perkins -- Winslow Homer -- Frank Weston Benson -- Laura Woodward -- Everett Shinn. Paintings with a local connection: St. Johns River, p.37, 49, 53; Fort George Island, p.57; St. Augustine, p. 51, 63, 73, 91, and 109.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Vickers, Sam -- Art collections -- Exhibitions., Florida in art -- Exhibitions., Painters -- United States -- Biography., Painting, American -- Exhibitions., Painting -- Private collections -- Florida -- Exhibitions., Vickers, Roberta -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.

Publication Details

Author

Libby, Gary.

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Gainesville, Fla.

Call No.

Rare Book ND 1460 .F58 C45 1996

ISBN

0813014778

LCCN

96015917