The Sweet Life
Julius LeBlanc Stewart and Painting the Belle Epoque
$120.93
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2024
Summary
An entirely new exploration of the life and career of the expat American artist Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855-1919), who spent nearly all his life in Paris, and whose oil paintings feature in private collections and those of many major museums on both sides of the Atlantic. Stewart’s paintings are highly engaging and attractive, covering a broad cross-section of later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American Expat Parisian high society, its genteel past-times, and travel, in a style of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913875596 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1913875598 |
| Author: | James W. Tottis, Michael Crane, Jacqueline Francis, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Campbell Mobley, Vincent DiGirolamo, Valerie Ann Leeds |
| Publisher: | D Giles Ltd |
| Imprint: | D Giles Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.51kg |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 241mm |
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Critics Review
“Like a decadent lady cake crafted by the finest chef a Gilded Age heiress could hire”–The Magazine Antiques
About The Author
James W. Tottis
James W. Tottis is a museum consultant and former curator of American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts; Valerie Ann Leeds is an independent scholar and curator; Barbara Dayer Gallati is curator emerita of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Jacqueline Francis is professor and dean, Humanities and Sciences Division, California College of the Arts; Michael Crane is past curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts, and currently the curator of Collections at the Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit, MI; Vincent DiGirolamo is an associate professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York; William DeGregorio is the associate curator, The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Campbell Mobley is a curator at Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL.
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