Robert L Lewis
Three Wounded Champions of American Tonalism: Ralph Albert Blakelock, Homer Dodge Martin, Alexander Helwig Wyant.
North Charleston, South Carolina : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. First edition. 9781514807408 x/97 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", is like new.
"The Hudson River School of American landscape painting changed over time. Its final days are represented by three wounded champions: Ralph Albert Blakelock, Homer Dodge Martin, Alexander Helwig Wyant, each bearing his own burden and physical disability. Each was damaged in a different way and each overcame his impairment or learned to live with it, in pursuit of the production of art. None of them would deviate from their shared goal of producing landscape art which represented their own individual vision.
This book also tracks their posthumous recognition by listing the auction prices for their paintings and converting these prices into 2013 values. The book is of interest to those interested in art history and American civilization as well as for collectors who will find the updated auction prices as invaluable in gain a current prospective on value."