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Portrait of William Walton

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Description: Portrait of William Walton

TitlePortrait of William Walton

Creator nameBeckwith, James Carroll

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1886

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions47 7/8 x 28 3/8 in.

LocationCentury Association, New York

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArt, American--19th centurySmoking in artArtists--Portraits

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1. Finding the “Real” American Artist

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

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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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 1996 by Yale University

Related print edition pages: pp.19-45

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

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

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