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TitleA Corner of the Studio

Creator nameWhitney, John Henry Ellsworth

Creator name (description)John Henry Ellsworth Whitney after Kenyon Cox

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1891

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

DimensionsUnknown

LocationPublished in Century Magazine 41 (January 1891)

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArtists' studios in artArtists--Portraits

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1. Finding the “Real” American Artist

Sarah Burns

Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America

If we were to construct a composite image of the late-nineteenth-century American artist, this generically white, male, Anglo-Saxon figure would be highly individualistic, possessed of a powerful personality, spiritual, sensitive, close to nature, self-absorbed, reclusive, marginal, childlike and primitive, yet simultaneously materialistic, sociable and socially adept, gentlemanly, civic-minded, worldly, urbane, businesslike, and fully integrated into every aspect of modern life. As individuals, …

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Sarah Burns

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.19-45

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00068.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14778&redirecttoanchor=13470

Chapter subject tags:Art, ModernArt, American--19th CenturyArtists--Social conditionsArtists--PortraitsPhysiognomy

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