American Artists' Materials Suppliers Directory: A guide to stretchers, panels, millboards, and stencil marks

• Author(s): Alexander W. Katlan,
• Publisher: Noyes Press
• Pages: 544
• ISBN_10: 0932087191
  ISBN_13: 9780932087195
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Techniques / General , Business & Economics / Infrastructure , Business & Economics / Economics / General ,

Description:... Provides art researchers and conservators with the first in-depth examination of the kinds of stretchers, wood panels, mill boards and canvas types used by American artists from the 19th to early 20th centuries. Also features case histories of the art materials of three American artists--Thomas Cole, Jasper Cropsey and Albert Bierstadt; includes directories of commercial art suppliers, carvers, gilders and related craftsmen of the period. Features close to 300 bandw illustrations. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR