Consuming Views: Art and Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900

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The White Mountains, solid and ageless peaks of granite, rise up across the landscape of northern New Hampshire. Their natural beauty has inspired visitors to the state for centuries. Generations of visitors to the mountains have found something new and meaningful for themselves and for the culture in which they live.

By the middle of the nineteenth century the region's magnificent and varied scenery attracted tourists and artists from around the country as well as from Europe. More than four hundred artists are known to have painted White Mountain scenes before 1900. Artists who visited New Hampshire during the second half of the nineteenth century interpreted White Mountain scenery in ways designed to appeal to and attract tourists and to serve as souvenirs of their mountain visits. Hotel owners encouraged painters to work and to take up residence in the White Mountain hotels. Paintings enriched the tourists' sensibilities and enhanced an appreciation of the landscape, even as a growing middle class was gaining cultural as well as economic power. Merchants, bankers, and attorneys, along with their families, embraced gentility by acquiring, displaying, and contemplating paintings. For some these paintings remained mere symbols of their own rising economic status. For others these objects and images were of more spiritual than economic value.

Each painting included in this book presents a compelling and unique perspective of a White Mountain locale. All thirty-seven paintings featured are reproduced in full color. The artworks are organized geographically, following routes nineteenth century travelers took while touring the White Mountains. The reader will be able to explore the key sites that attracted tourists and inspired artists, beginning and ending with a visit to North Conway, home of the earliest White Mountain artists' community.

Thirty-three authors from many different disciplines have contributed to this publication. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives, they reveal the story and significance of White Mountain scenery, of the nineteenth-century artists who depicted it, and of the people (consumers) who acquired, owned, and cherished White Mountain art.

A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony

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A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony
Alma M. Gilbert , and Judith B. Tankard
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
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New Hampshire's Cornish Colony (NH) (Images of America)

ASIN: 1580081290

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Much has changed since the previous turn of the century, but our appreciation of the restrained and peaceful beauty of Cornish, New Hampshire has remained. In the early 1900s, Cornish was renowned as an artist's colony filled with magical gardens that appeared in the work of many resident artists like Frances Houston, William Hyde, Maria Oakey Dewing, and Stephen and Maxfield Parrish. In many cases, the fame of the gardens outlasted the reputation of the artist, but in A Place of Beauty, the art and the gardens that provided inspiration are seen as inseparable.

Garden admirers will enjoy this book as much as any art historian. Twelve different houses are discussed in detail--the owners, architects, gardeners, and their stylistic goals are revealed through fascinating text, historical photographs, and reproductions of the works of art that were created by the talented residents. Between painting, sculpting, and writing, Cornish's residents also found time to be surprisingly competitive in the realm of gardening. While each house maintained a clear style, the overall beauty was discussed and judged with a fairly critical eye, and professional designers such as Ellen Shipman were brought in for expert consultations. As one visitor said, "They bore me to death with their houses and their poor little flower beds." The text is filled with personal notes, diary entries, and letters--the Cornish residents were a prolific lot. And while the community was described by one female citizen as "a place where men are acknowledged to be more important than the women," the numerous photos and reproductions of paintings that fill the book show a world filled with an astonishing beauty rarely seen in our modern world. --Jill Lightner

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New Hampshire 24/7
Rick Smolan , and David Elliot Cohen
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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You Know You're in New Hampshire When...: 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo, and Eats of the Granite State (You Know You're In Series)

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ASIN: 0756600693

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Following the success of The New York Times bestseller America 24/7, DK is publishing 50 books that showcase the best photographs from each state - all to be published on the same day. Each individual book includes 95% new photography and is a unique peronal expression of state pride.

Art of the State: New Hampshire (Art of the State)

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Art of the State: New Hampshire (Art of the State)
Patricia Harris , and David Lyon
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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It was the first colony to declare independence, and Samuel Wilson, the original "Uncle Sam," was born here. Robert Frost took the road less traveled in New Hampshire, and it was here that Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda rowed on Golden Pond. This illustrated tribute to the tradition-rich Granite State explores its history, politics, stunning scenery, and tourist draws, from the soaring White Mountains ("the Alps of America") to the famed MacDowell and Cornish colonies that have inspired writers and artists from Thornton Wilder to Maxfield Parrish to Leonard Bernstein.

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On Christmas Eve 1876, Portsmouth citizens watched flames reduce their largest meetinghouse and entertainment hall to ashes. During the following year, local families, businessmen, and craftsmen combined their resources to build a new auditorium with state-of-the-art lighting, rigging, staging, and seatingóa comfortable venue for public addresses, charity functions, and international entertainment. The Music Hall, Portsmouth, was born. ÝÝTwain spoke from her stage, Sousaís brass echoed from her walls, and Edisonís films brought her silver screen to life. Enduring war, depression, and multiple threats of destruction, this grand hall today stands as New Hampshireís oldest operating theater. Showcasing the worldís finest stage and screen talent, offering artistic education to young and old, and hosting fundraisers and private events, the Music Hall is a testament to the necessity of arts in local culture and the strength of a communityís resolve. ÝÝ

New Hampshire's Cornish Colony (NH) (Images of America)

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New Hampshire's Cornish Colony: Highly Recommended

New Hampshire's Cornish Colony (NH) (Images of America)
Fern K. Meyers , and James B. Atkinson
Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony

ASIN: 0738537535
Release Date: 2005-04-27

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New Hampshire's Cornish Colony illustrates this distinguished American art colony. First settled in 1885 by colleagues of America's Michelangelo, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the Cornish Colony was a retreat for sculptors, painters, writers, and musicians. They were attracted to this peaceful valley nestled in the New Hampshire hills in the shadow of Vermont's Mount Ascutney. Known as “the Athens of America,” the Cornish Colony was a lively, glamorous society during its heyday from 1885 to 1925. One outstanding member, the famous artist Maxfield Parrish, was called a “chickadee” because he spent the entire year in Cornish, not merely the summer. In New Hampshire's Cornish Colony, discover a portrait of the colonists' society and the fascinating people who contributed to America's cultural legacy.

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New Hampshire's Cornish Colony: Highly Recommended.......2005-05-10

In the late nineteenth century, an American cultural center that arose in New Hampshire Village became known as the Cornish Colony. A summer retreat of the famous sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, the Colony became the center of an American renaissance that lured notables in the arts, literature, music, and theatre such as Maxfield Parish, Paul Manship, Witter Bynner, Walter Damrosch, Isadora Duncan, Marie Dressler -- and even President Woodrow Wilson. From the 1880s to the 1920s, the Colony comprised an elite center of cultural communication but in the remainder of the twentieth century it was largely ignored by cultural historians. Fortunately, especially for lovers of the arts and history who live far from New England, Fern Meyers and James Atkinson have collected a stunning set of photographs that evoke the ambiance of a community of artists inspired by a setting in the high hills alongside the broad Connecticut River. Their detailed comments encapsulate the history and ethnography of the Colony with an intimate view of residents' personalities and activities at work and play. Men and women artists are given equal time, and even children get a share in the description of their pageants and plays, one of them directed by Ethel Barrymore. A delightful collection of photographs depicts a remarkable group of talented individuals and families in "the Gilded Age" of American culture. Highly recommended for cultural historians, critics, and all lovers of the arts.

Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform

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Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform
Scott Gac
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: 0300111983

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In the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America’s most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into national icons, taking up the reform issues of their age and singing out especially for temperance and antislavery reform. This engaging book is the first to tell the full story of the Hutchinsons, how they contributed to the transformation of American culture, and how they originated the marketable American protest song.
Through concerts, writings, sheet music publications, and books of lyrics, the Hutchinson Family Singers established a new space for civic action, a place at the intersection of culture, reform, religion, and politics. The book documents the Hutchinsons’ impact on abolition and other reform projects and offers an original conception of the rising importance of popular culture in antebellum America.

New Hampshire Scenery: A Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes

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New Hampshire Scenery: A Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes
Catherine H. Campbell
Manufacturer: Phoenix Publishing (NH)
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ASIN: 091465912X

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Art in unexpected places
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
Manufacturer: Percent for Art Collection, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0962191507

Factory under the Elms: A History of Harrisburg, New Hampshire 1774-1969

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Factory under the Elms: A History of Harrisburg, New Hampshire 1774-1969
John Bordon Armstrong
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: 0262010313

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This is a detailed history of one instance of a vanishing phenomenon, the small New England textile town. Source materials such as company records, public records, newspapers, personal interviews, and indeed the town itself, which survives very largely as it was a century ago, were examined with assiduous scholarship. The resulting history is colorful and lively, its rich detail making it good reading as well as careful history.

Harrisville is located in the rugged highlands of southwestern New Hampshire. Although the original settlement of this area antedated the Revolution, it was early in the nineteenth century that Harrisville was brought into existence by the harnessing of an excellent fall of water for the manufacture of woolen cloth. In one important respect, the history of this mill town has been atypical. It never became an industrial slum, a ghost town, or the fief of some outside industrial overlord. Today, the town's economy rests on its numerous summer residents and on the up-to-date woolen mill still owned and operated by the same family that came there in the 1850s to compete with the Harrises. The mill village is well acquainted with hard times, but it remains neat, harmonious, and businesslike, an unusual place where the historic past merges indefinably into the active present and where the faded bricks laid down a century and a half ago continue to serve a living community.

The survival of the nineteenth-century mill village also suggest Harrisville's real significance: it has adapted to change without destroying its past. The patina on this mill town affirms that the machine is man's servant, not his master, and that its end product can be, not the millennium, but comfort, order, beauty, and community.

In tracing this story of two centuries of New England life, Professor Armstrong provides us with a detailed description of not only the growth of the towns and its mills but also of everyday life, disease and medical care, temperance and intemperance, modes of transportation, recreation, schools and churches, conflicts between mill owners, between farmers and mill population, between natives and immigrants, and through it all, the slow growth of a sense of community. Maps and photographs of the town, past and present, complement the text, and there are tables on wage rates, vital statistics, elections, population, town budgets, property valuations, and the schools. This very broad focus, together with scholarly treatment and careful organization of fact, will make this book a valuable addition to social history and a model for the writing of local history.

John Borden Armstrong is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.

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Wildlife Painting Basics: Wolves, Foxes, & Coyotes (Wildlife Painting Basics)
Jan Martin McGuire
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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Wildlife Painting Step by Step

ASIN: 1581800517

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Wolves are currently the most popular wild animal subject among painters. This book provides all the information beginning wildlife painters need to know how to paint realistic and accurate wolves, red foxes and coyotes. Beginning chapters focus on basic paint handling techniques, wolf anatomy and proportions, behavior, attitudes, moods and movement, as well as natural habitats. The second half of the book consists of a detailed range of steps that enable readers to complete wolf, fox and coyote paintings from start to finish. The book also offers two appendices filled with recommended books, videos and Web sites to inspire artists to learn the most about these admirable creatures.

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Beautiful Book.......2007-07-23

Some books I keep and cherish forever. This one will never leave my library.

Great learning book.......2005-10-21

Read it over and over. Brought the book to a couple of my friends who dabbles in art, they thought it was fantastic.
Thank you.
Madeleine

GREAT!.......2004-03-14

A well-researched, wonderful book. Lots of helpful info and a few pages of referene pics which may be helpful. Her own paintings are inspirational and believable. You can tell she really knows her subjects. Great book! It uses acrylic techniques, though, not sure how well these would translate into oils. S

Great! Where's the sequel?.......2002-06-02

I really love this book. Unlike other 'how to draw' animal books, the artist shows the initial sketch and the finished painting. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning to draw Canids.

This book is not for beginners though. It definately assumes you know how to draw and does not instruct you in basic drawing technique. That being said, the book is designed to prep you for painting some of nature's most fantastic creatures... wolves.

My only quibble with this book, is that I would've like to see more sketches and 'turn around' style pictures of wolves sketched from various angles, and perhaps a sketch started at the beginning and progressing through to its finished stage. I learn a lot from drawing in this manner, and it is a challenge to draw the faces of wolves and place their ears correctly. (my dog is a poor substitute) GRIN.

This is a great book. I plan on looking up more books in this series!

Outstanding!.......2002-05-09

I counted 112 pages filled with 220 pictures, all in full color, including many wonderful, useful sketches of wolves, foxes and coyotes. There are 128 pages in the book and certainly more information than you could ever imagine. I am a wildlife painter and I too use acrylics and Ms. McGuire offered many tricks and tips that I had never seen but now use with a new excitement.
I believe that the book is very solidly packed. Chapters covering: Basics, Anatomy and Proportions, Pups, Attitude, Behavior and Movement,Natural Habitat, Painting a Pack of Wolves, Painting a Coyote, and Painting a Red Fox.
A few years back I had hoped to study from Jan Martin McGuire while she was in Joseph, Oregon but was unable to get there at that particular time. I realize, after reading and using this book, that I was SO right in desiring to study from her and this book will give me the chance. I have viewed her paintings and they are exciting and certainly something I want to study.
My students have also purchased this book and carry it to my classes.
If you are interested in learning more about Wildlife Painting and Wolves, Foxes and Coyotes, you can't go wrong in adding this book to you collecton of useful painting books.

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A way to laugh every day!.......2007-02-14

Smarter than The Far Side, Non Sequitur is the greatest comic out there. I was thrilled to finally see it come out in a wall calendar! And when it arrived I could not have been more satisfied.

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