Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable of Contents
Foreword
Art of Acadia: A Centennial Celebration
Purpose of book: to mark the 100
th anniversary of the founding of Acadia National Park through the artists who have found their muse in the greater Mount Desert Island region.
2-4 images
Introduction
Arriving at Acadia
Short personal essay about how the authors came to Acadia
6-8 images
Pre(r)amble
Acadia: The Lay of the Island
Description of the area: location in Maine, physical features, allure, with maps, aerial views, silhouettes, stereoscope views
8-12 images
Part 1: 17
th-19
th Century
- Earliest depictions and first artists
Native Americans, DeBry engraving (1627), English Pilot silhouette (1760), F. Graeter hand-colored lithographs (1836), etc. Paintings by Thomas Doughty, Alvin Fisher
16-18 images
- Hudson River School
Frederic Church (1826-1900) at MDI (1850- 1865), with his contemporaries and later 19
th-century artists: Thomas Cole, Fitz Henry Lane, William Stanley Haseltine, Sanford R. Gifford, Jervis McEntee, et al.
25 images
- Late 19th-Century Illustration and Art
Guidebooks, adventure stories, engravings, drawings, photographs, paintings, stereoscopic views, etc.
25 images
Part 2: 20
th Century
- Acadia National Park
Carriage trails, bridges, gardens, scenic views (includes the Champlain Society, artist-in-residence program, etc.)
25 images
- Carroll Sargent Tyson
Impressionist painter
10-12 images
- 20th-Century Artists
John Singer Sargent, Dwight Blaney, Childe Hassam, Marguerite Zorach, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Maurice Freedman, et al., plus 2-4 pages on cartographers
40 images
- Figures of Island Literature
Excerpts of poetry and prose, with short bios of 10-15 authors
5 images
- TIPS—The Three Islesford Painters
H. B. Warren, C. Scott White, and C. E. Kinkead
20 images
- Artists of Great Cranberry Island
Postwar generation: Heliker, LaHotan, Kienbusch, Campbell, Nelson, et al.
20 images
Part 3: Acadia Contemporary 1970-2015
- Artists of Acadia
Full range of interpretations of the island
90-120 images
Afterword
Portrait Gallery
Selected bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
