American Painters on Technique: 1860-1945

$50.00 at The Getty Museum.

Lance Mayer and Gay Myers This book, like the authors’ previous volume  on American painting materials and techniques from the colonial period to 1860, is the first overview of an important but largely unknown aspect of American art from 1860 to 1945. The study is based primarily on firsthand descriptions of the materials and techniques that artists used to make paintings. It is written to be accessible and interesting to curators, art historians, and painters, as well as conservators. The period covered in…