Description
Book SynopsisExamines landscape, harborscape, and seascape paintings by Fitz H. Lane (1804–1865) that comment on agriculture, extraction industries, settlement patterns, trade, and the political economy of nineteenth-century coastal New England.
Trade Review“Painting the Inhabited Landscape is an American art history that in its depth of research and its absolute assurance in method and goals matches or surpasses anything done by any global modernist art historian today. It is a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century world history in visual and material studies, and will be of interest to anyone looking at the formation of global modernism, technologies, and capital markets.”
—Bruce Robertson,coauthor of Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
“Painting the Inhabited Landscape is by far the most insightful study of Lane and his art to date. Margaretta Lovell's close examination of Lane’s life, art, and the historical contexts within which he worked represents not only a quantum leap for our understanding of Lane and his world but also a new standard of scholarship for the field of American art.”
—Alan Wallach,author of Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: A Small City with a Far Reach
1. Reputation: Lane, Gloucester’s “Own Artist,” 1842–1865
2. Value: Lane, 1865–2020
3. Canvas: Names, Naming, and Identity
4. Fish: Lane’s Gloucester
5. Lumber: Lane’s Maine
6. Granite: Shipwreck with Spectators
7. Travelers I: Surinam and California
8. Travelers II: Ireland, China, Puerto Rico
Conclusion
Appendix A: Exhibitions and Sales That Included Fitz H. Lane Paintings During His Lifetime
Appendix B: Inventories and Lists of Located Lane Paintings, 1865–1961
Notes
Bibliography
Index
