Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection

by Martha R. Severens, Estill Curtis Pennington, Johnson Collection

The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in nineteenth-century Europe provoked an interesting response from painters in the American South. Painterly trends emanating from Barbizon and Giverny emphasized the subtle textures of nature through warm color and broken brush stroke. Artists' subject matter tended to represent a prosperous middle class at play, with the subtle suggestion that painting was indeed art for art's sake and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611176751
• ISBN13: 9781611176759
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.2" x 11.9"