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The Triumphs and Tragedies of Harriet Hubbard Ayer
“An excellently researched mixture of history and biography about a maverick Victorian woman who made beauty her business.” —Barbara Goldsmith, ...
Harriet Hubbard Ayer moved to New York City by 1883 and established Recamier Preparations, Inc., the earliest cosmetic company owned and operated by a...
The Watercolours for The Birds of America
All 471 of Audubon's original watercolours are reproduced in this book, with 95 given special full-page display accompanied by extensive ornithologica...
American Artists at the Universal Exposition
Describes the historical background of the Universal Exposition and offers brief profiles of the American artists who exhibited there....
A companion volume to The New-York Historical Society's exhibition of the paintings of John James Audubon features full-color reproductions of all 470...
Artist-entrepreneurs from the Hudson River School to the American Impressionists
New York's Tenth Street Studio Building (1857-1956), designed by Richard Morris Hunt, housed some of the most important artists in the United States, ...
Birds of America
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John James Audubon
Chronicles the life of French-born American artist-naturalist and profiles his drawing of the plants and animals he encountered....
The Artist as Architect
At the height of his career as the leader of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting, Thomas Cole listed himself in the New York City D...
For readers who are short on time, long on curiosity, and turned off by art-world jargon, Abrams presents a series of hip, entertaining books on artis...