Artists In The Life Of Charleston: Through Colony And State, From Restoration To Reconstruction : Transactions, APS

Book Description:

Charleston¿s greatest contribution to American painting was timely patronage of men of ability. Contents of this study: Historical intro.; Art & artists from the 16th to the mid-18th cent.; Jeremiah Theus, Alexander Gordon, & the mid-18th cent.; Prosperous pre-Revolutionary years; The Revolutionary years; Federal years; The academic tradition & native talent in the first quarter of the 19th cent.; Fraser, Allston, White, & Cogdell; The South Carolina Acad. of Fine Arts, its predecessors & successors; Sculpture; Theatrical & decorative painters; The silhouettists; Backgrounds; Native talent & visiting strangers; ¿Female artists¿ & talented families; The daguerreotype & photography; Pre-war decades; & The war years -- 1861-1865. Ill.