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Accomplished in all departments of art--Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874 / James F. O'Gorman.
Main entry:

O'Gorman, James F.

Title & Author:

Accomplished in all departments of art--Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874 / James F. O'Gorman.

Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1998.

Description:

xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-278) and index.
"A Rare Man" -- "Unrivalled Skill in This Branch of Art": Book Illustration -- "The Power of the Pencil Adds Much to the Power of the Pen": Evangeline, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Little Women -- "His Pencil Has Been in Constant Demand": Periodical Illustration -- "Draws So Many Things So Well": Graphic and Other Art -- "Has Shown Himself a Master": Architecture -- "A Rare Achievement of Architectural Skill": College Hall, Wellesley -- "Some Lasting Memento of Their Worth": Monuments -- "Well Calculated to Promote Fraternal Feeling": The National Monument to the Forefathers -- "From the Pencil of Billings": Festivals, Fireworks, and Furniture -- Billings's Books -- A Billings Bookshelf -- Billings's Buildings.
Summary:

This Book reconstructs the career of Hammatt Billings, one of the most prolific and versatile artists of the nineteenth century. Skilled in a wide range of media, Billings designed furniture, statuary, monuments, architecture, and public and private gardens. He was a painter in both oils and watercolors, a portraitist, and an illustrator whose drawings appeared in the original American editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women.
Although Billings worked for many private patrons, he was also very much a public artist, giving visible form to the popular celebrations of his era. He designed fireworks displays for the Boston Common, decorated buildings in times of public celebration and mourning, laid out plans for a variety of fairs and festivals, and created floats for parades.

ISBN:

1558491481 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781558491489 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874.
Billings, Hammatt.
Artists United States Biography.
Artistes États-Unis Biographies.
Artists.
Biografie
Beeldende kunsten.
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies.

Added entries:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207376
Call No.: NA44.B598.9 O3 1998
Status: Available

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