An American Celebration: The Art of Charles Wysocki

By Betty Ballantine and Charles Wysocki

Book Overview

Charles Wysocki delights in his native land and portrays the joys of its early days so lyrically that he has become the country's leading painter of Americana. In AN AMERICAN CELEBRATION, his premier collection, the artist offers over 200 full-color paintings. Text by Betty Ballantine perfectly embellishes his sense of time and place, providing a further look into American lore, history, innovations, and accomplishments. Selection of the Literary Guild. Excerpted in Family Circle and Americana magazine. 118,000 copies in print.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894809423
• ISBN13: 9780894809422
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Lovely Book - Pictures/Colors Are Great!

The book covers all the themes/topics he uses in his art with interesting and fun to read text. Great book! If you like jigsaw puzzles and have ever worked on a Charles Wysocki puzzle you will enjoy this book with colorful pictures of his art in an Americana style.

This book is wonderful!

This is a wonderful book and a must have for any lover of Charles Wysocki's work. There are tons of pictures of his art and each page has a description of what life was like in the old days. If you love Charles Wysocki's work, you won't be disappointed with this book.

Over 200 paintings are reproduced in color

Over 200 paintings are reproduced in color in An American Celebration, a survey of American images done folk art style. Clambakes, quilting bees, and fairs are just some of Wysocki's subjects, celebrating the joys of early and traditional American gatherings and subjects.

As beautiful as the artists' works truly are.

Wonderful illustrations of the artists' works and short, to-the-point descriptions make this an enjoyable book to leave out on a coffee table for anyone to peruse. Makes you wish you owned a real print of each and every picture.

delightful, just wonderful book

I just received this book as a gift from my brother and is just wonderful. I've been collecting Charles' calendards sense the earlies 80's and I always look forward the next year to see his work!