This is a list of sources I’ve used in writing Medium posts about artists of the Americas. It starts with a list of artists, and then goes to bibliographies.
Audubon, John James
Burnham, Daniel
Chase, William Merritt
Diebenkorn, Richard
Dove, Arthur
Harnett, William Michael
Herrán, Saturnino (research underway for future Medium essay)
La Farge, John
Moreno, Tatti
Prendergast, Maurice Brazil
Rivera, Diego
Salcedo, Doris
Sargent, John Singer
Tanner, Henry Ossawa
Thomson, Tom
Tiffany, Louis Comfort
Audubon, John James
“Americans: A ‘Bunch Of Amateurs,’ And Proud Of It,” WBUR, NPR, May 19, 2012. Read for additional confirmation of details on Franklin’s hat.
“Britain: Copy of Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ Is Sold at Auction for $10.3 Million, a Record,” Associated Press, Dec. 7,2010, as printed in New York Times.
Dallett, Francis James, Citizen Audubon: A Documentary Discovery, The Princeton University Library Chronicle Vol. 21, No. 1/2, JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (AUTUMN 1959 & WINTER 1960), pp. 89-93 (5 pages), accessed via JSTOR.
Heitman, Danny, “John James Audubon and the American Presidency,” undated, White House Historical Association. Read for details on Franklin’s hat.
Lund, Nicholas, John James Audubon: Crazy, Wrong, or Neither?, Audubon.org website, Sept. 14, 2015.
Souder, William, Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America — Kindle Edition, first published by North Point Press, 2004.
Weiss, Ben, John James Audubon: Life-Sized and Larger than Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, YouTube channel, posted May 1, 2014.
Krohe, James Jr. “The Man With the Plan,” Chicago Reader, June 17, 1993
Chase, William Merritt
Hirshler, Erica,”William Merritt Chase’s Modern Women,” lecture at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 2016. MFA YouTube channel.
Meisler, Stanley, “Gone missing in plain sight; William Merritt Chase was one of the top painters of the 1880s, only to be set aside. Can he arise anew?” Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2016. Accessed via ProQuest.
Weinberg, H. Barbara. “William Merritt Chase (1849–1916).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chas/hd_chas.htm (July 2011)
Diebenkorn, Richard
Lane, Grayson Harris, Diebenkorn entry in “The Eye of Duncan Phillips. A Collection in the Making,” editors, Passantino, Erika D. and David W. Scott, Yale University Press, 1999. p. 590-593
Larsen, Susan. “Oral history interview with Richard Diebenkorn, 1985 May 1-1987 December 15,” Smithsonian Institution. Section used.. “At any rate, we had a house and I was there on the weekends. But then we went to the museums, all the time. Just feasted–on the National Gallery and Phillips Memorial Gallery and Corcoran and. . . “
“Matisse/Diebenkorn,” edited by Janet Bishop and Katherine Rothkopf. 2016. Baltimore Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Art in association with DelMonico Books.
Cited in this essay is an excerpt from Bishop’s essay in the book,” Making Matisse His Own: Richard Diebenkorn’s Early Abstractions and Figurative Paintings,” p. 21-22 on Diebenkorn’s impressions of the Phillips. Bishop cites as her source a 1982 interview of Diebenkorn by Fritz Jellinghouse, which is stored at the Phillips Collection Library and Archives.
Dove, Arthur
“1939 BOOK AWARDS GIVEN BY CRITICS,” New York Times, Feb. 14, 1940.
Kramer, Hilton, “Art View; ARTHUR DOVE AND HIS CONSTANT PATRON,” New York Times, June 21, 1981.
“ARTHUR G. DOVE (1880–1946), ” biography from Phillips Collection website.
“Arthur Dove Dies, Abstractionist, 66,” New York Times, Nov. 24, 1946.
“Arthur Dove: Movement No. 1,“Inventing Abstraction,” Museum of Modern Art.
DeLue, Rachael Z. , John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art Part IV: Arthur Dove: Circles, Signs, and Sounds, National Gallery of Art, 2016.
Kahn, Eve M., “New Life for a Cottage That Doubled as an Artists’ Laboratory,” New York Times, Aug. 11, 2016.
Murphy, Jessica. “Arthur Dove (1880–1946),” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2007.
Schiff, Stacy, “A Grounded Soul: Saint-Exupery in New York,” New York Times, May 30, 1993.
Torchia, Robert, “Arthur Dove – biography,” National Gallery of Art website, Sept. 29, 2016.
Harnett, William Michael
“Old Models,” webpage of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, describing this painting.
“Paintings of the late W.M. Harnett : on exhibition, Earle’s Galleries,” c. 1892.
Philadelphia : Earle’s Galleries, copied posted online at Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library Digital Collections.
“Still Life—Violin and Music,” page on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website about this painting, including a short audio description.
Herrán, Saturnino (research underway on this essay)
Sanguino, Julieta, “Saturnino Herrán: el artista mexicano que pocos conocen y fue fundamental para el arte moderno,” El País, October 8, 2021.
La Farge, John
Cortissoz, Royal, John La Farge : A Memoir and Study. Houghton Mifflin: 1911. Accessed via Google Books.
John La Farge, Artcyclopedia. Page with many links to find works online by La Farge.
John La Farge, bio sketch, Phillips Collection.
LA FARGE REVOLUTIONIZED THE ART OF STAINED GLASS; The Secret Discovered by the Well Known Artist Changed the Process of Manufacture All Over the World. New York Times, May 1, 1910.
Sloan, Julie L., The Rivalry Between Louis Comfort Tiffany and John La Farge, posted on her web site.
Yarnell, James L. John Farge: Watercolors and Drawings, Hudson River Museum, 1990. Accessed via Google Books.
Zimmer, William, LaFarge: An Artist for the Gilded Age, New York Times, December 9, 1990.
Moreno, Tatti
“Artista plástico Tatti Moreno tem obras registradas em livro,” Globoplay, Nov. 12, 2016
Bezerra, Alfonso, “Pandemia do coronavírus afeta religiões de matriz africana e indígena no Recife,” Brasil de Fato, April 8, 2020.
Imagem do Senhor do Bonfim vai percorrer ruas de Salvador, Acidigital.com, April 2, 2020.
Lefebvre, Sam, “How Coronavirus Derailed a Fulbright Fellow’s Musicological Research in Brazil,” KQED, April 7, 2020.
Livro biográfico retrata a trajetória artística de Tatti Moreno , web page for the Secretaria de Cultura for the state of Bahia
Brazil Coronavirus Map and Case Count, New York Times.
Jeantet, Diane, “Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine,” Associated Press story as seen in Taiwan News, March 31, 2020.
McCoy, Terrence, “ ‘Soldiers of Jesus’: Armed neo-Pentecostals torment Brazil’s religious minorities,” Washington Post, Dec. 8, 2019.
“Pandemia do novo coronavírus provoca mudanças em terreiros de Candomblé de Petrolina,” por G1 Petrolina, Globo.com, April 16, 2020.
Shirey, Heather. “Transforming the Orixás: Candomblé in Sacred and Secular Spaces in Salvador Da Bahia, Brazil,” African Arts, vol. 42, no. 4, 2009, pp. 62–79. Accessed via JSTOR.
Zagarim Mauricio and the Associated Press, “Why Brazil’s Churches Closed, Even Though President Bolsonaro Disagrees,” Christianity Today, April 6, 2020.
Prendergast, Maurice Brazil
Barnes, Albert C., “The Art in Painting,” New York: Brace Harcourt. 1925, accessed via Archive.org.
C. H. B. “PAINTING BY MAURICE PRENDERGAST.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit, vol. 6, no. 1, 1924, pp. 3–5. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41500260. Accessed 9 Oct. 2020.
Glackens, Wm. J. “The American Section the National Art: an Interview With the Chairman of the Domestic Committee, Wm. J. Glackens.” Arts & Decoration (1910-1918), Vol. 3, No. 5, 1913, Pp. 159–164. Jstor, Accessed 9 Oct. 2020.
Jewell, Kaelin, “Barnes Takeout: Art Talk on Maurice Prendergast’s Beach Scenes,” Barnes Foundation YouTube channel, May 12, 2020.
“Maurice Prendergast,” website entry for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, credited to Emery Battis Artist Biographies for the exhibition American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2000.
“Maurice Brazil Prendergast: Biography,” Terra Foundation for American Art website entry.
“Macbeth Gallery,” Wikipedia page, as accessed on Oct. 10, 2020.
“The Eight,” editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica. June 5, 2017.
“The Eight and American Modernisms,” webpage for exhibition, Milwaukee Art Museum.
Torchia, Robert, “Maurice Prendergast,” National Gallery of Art biography. Aug. 17, 2018.
Vitale, Tom,” ‘Armory Show’ That Shocked America In 1913, Celebrates 100,” NPR Weekend Edition, Feb. 17, 2013
Weinberg, H. Barbara. “The Ashcan School,” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. (April 2010)
Rivera, Diego
Encyclopaedia Britannica entries for Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Venustiano Carranza, and David Alfaro Siqueiros
“The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place,” National Gallery of Art slideshow.
“The Timeline of the Turbulent Life of Diego Rivera: His Art and his Politics,” Thayer Watkins &
Betty Faultner, San Jose State University.
Sources below for “Anxiety, Doris Salcedo, van Gogh : Translating ‘A flor de piel’,” posted on Medium on May 31, 2023.
Hinkson, Lauren, “Doris Salcedo/A Flor de Piel,” entry on Guggenheim website, consulted May 31, 2023.
“Idiomatic Expression – a flor de piel,” March 14, 2014. Spanishskulduggery blog on Tumblr.
“In Focus: Doris Salcedo on ‘A Flor de Piel’ and ‘Plegaria Muda’ | White Cube
La horma de tu negocio, a website for the shoe leather industry.
Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, RAE) definition of flor, with special attention to this one..”12. f. En las pieles adobadas, parte exterior, que admite pulimento, a distinción de la llamada carnaza” and a flor de piel : Sensible, fácil, pronto.
“The Impossible Made Real,” Harvard Art Museums video of Mary Schneider Enriquez discussing “A flor de piel.”
Walsh, Colleen, “Rose Petals for the Lost,” Harvard Gazette, Oct. 21, 2016
Sargent, John Singer
Herdrich, Stephanie L., “Tracing Connections between Sargent and Charles Deering,” Metropolitan Museum of Art website. Aug. 15, 2015.
“Sargent’s Watercolors: Making the Best of an Emergency,” lecture by Erica Hirshler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, YouTube channel. Nov. 12, 2013.
Weinberg, H. Barbara. “John Singer Sargent (1856–1925).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/sarg/hd_sarg.htm (October 2004)
Tanner, Henry Ossawa
Alexia I. Hudson. “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, vol. 79, no. 2, 2012, pp. 238–248. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/pennhistory.79.2.0238.
Brenson, Michael, ART VIEW; For Tanner, Light Was Love, New York Times, Feb. 17, 1991.
Celebrating Henry Ossawa Tanner’s legacy of art, inspiration, WHYY, Jan. 27, 2020.
Flight Into Egypt, 1923, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.
Halle Tanner Dillon entry, Encyclopedia of Alabama website
Henry Ossawa Tanner : Modern Spirit, website for 2012 show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Link for recordings on YouTube.
Ivanova, Elena,” Virgin Mary and Electricity,” The Art Studio Inc. website, December 2012.
Johnson, Ken, An African-American Painter Who Tried to Transcend Race, New York Times, Feb. 9, 2012.
Kilian, Michael, Paris to Philadelphia, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 7, 1991
Moroccan Scene, Henry Ossawa Tanner, description on website of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.
Moses in the Bullrushes, Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website.
The Annunciation, Teacher Resources, Philadelphia Museum of Art’s website. Source for this detail– “Tanner entered this painting in the 1898 Paris Salon exhibition, after which it was bought for the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1899, making it his first work to enter an American museum.”
Woods, Naurice Frank. “Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Negotiation of Race and Art: Challenging ‘The Unknown Tanner.’” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 42, no. 6, 2011, pp. 887–905. JSTOR.
Thomson, Tom
Jackson, Eleanor, July 7,2020 post on Thomson on Everyday Art page on Facebook, which also appeared in the Art History and Fine Art Facebook group.
“Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven,” handout for exhibition, 2012-2013. McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
“Passion Over Reason: Ian Dejardin on Tom Thomson,” McMichael Canadian Art Collection, posted on YouTube, July 6, 2017.
Silcox, David, “Tom Thomson: Life & Work,” excerpt of biography posted online for free by Art Canada Institute.
Tiffany, Louis Comfort
‘Clara And Mr. Tiffany’: A Brightly Colored Story, NPR, Jan. 9, 2011
Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney, and Monica Obniski. “Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tiff/hd_tiff.htm (July 2007)
Goodman, Vivian, Exhibition Honors Woman Behind the Tiffany Lamp, NPR.
“Market Day Outside the Walls of Tangiers, Morocco,” Smithsonian American Art Museum website description of this painting.
Morse Museum website pages on Laurelton Hall and Tiffany Studios
Vreeland, Susan, “Clara and Mr. Tiffany,” Random House; Reprint edition (January 11, 2011)