Southern Interpretations from The Johnson Collection
by
Estill Curtis Pennington, Martha R. Severens
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
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’...