Margaretta Lovell

Venice : the American View, 1860-1920

Margaretta Lovell
1984
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1984. This catalog accompanied a traveling exhibit shown in 1985 and has numerous b&w and color plates of the works displayed. First 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. 169 pp, 123 illustrations ( 14 in color). Exhibition October 20, 1984 - January 20, 1985. In addition to many examples by Prendergast, Sargent and Whistler (of the latter, primarily prints), works by Bacher, Blum, Boit, Carlsen, Chapman, Chase, Coleman, Colman, Duveneck, Gifford, Gilbert, Haseltine, McLaughlan, Marin (four etchings), Moran, Neal, Nourse, Parrish,...

William Morris: The Sanford and Helen Berger Collection

Margaretta Lovell
Anthony Bliss
1984
An exhibition highlighting William Morris's talents and working habits, especially his work for Kelmscott Press. Cover design in color of preliminary design for "Jasmine" wall paper by William Morris, 1872. "For Norman from Helen & Sandy, 27 Oct 84" written in fine-tip marker. Slight shelf wear. 56 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 4to..

A Visitable Past : Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915

Margaretta Lovell
1989
In this ambitious and imaginative study, Margaretta M. Lovell analyzes the large body of accomplished, sometimes startling, often brilliant work of American artists drawn to Venice's ragged splendor in the last century. Including major works by such diverse and talented painters as James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and Maurice Prendergast, these richly varied paintings portray sleepy canals, architectural monuments, and scenes of picturesque everyday life while they also reveal surprising aspects of American culture.

Art in a Season of Revolution : Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America

Margaretta Lovell
2007

Focusing on the rich heritage of art-making in the eighteenth century, this lushly illustrated book positions both well-known painters and unknown artisans within the framework of their economic lives, their families, and the geographies through which they moved as they created notable careers and memorable objects. In considering both painting and decorative arts simultaneously, Art in a Season of Revolution departs from standard practice and resituates painters as artisans. Moreover, it gives equal play to the lives of the makers and the lives of the...

A Material World: Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America

Margaretta Lovell
George W. Boudreau
2019

In this volume, scholars from various disciplines show how physical objects can expand our comprehension of how people lived, worked, and thought during the colonial and early national periods.

Inspired by the “material turn” that introduced the legibility of objects across humanities disciplines, the essays in this collection show how “reading” material objects from sites such as Monticello, Salem, and the Connecticut River Valley brings to light significant dimensions of social experience and cultural practices that are not visible in the written record of early America. Reading...

Painting the Inhabited Landscape Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America

Margaretta Lovell
2023

The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geologic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however, was decidedly different.

In this important study, Margaretta Markle Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled, explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H....