Currier & Ives - Printmakers to the American People - Harry T. deals Peters

Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People
by Harry T. Peters

large hardcover in good used condition

"For half a century Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives served as "Printmakers to the American people." Today, they are still printmakers to the American people, for, in the 7500 extant prints that bear their names, a whole heritage of American tradition is caught vividly. In these prints can be found that wholesome national flavor, which makes their work the finest representation of the habits and achievement of the exciting era which witnessed the building of a great deals republic.

Currier and Ives were businessmen and craftsmen - Ives, at least, has some claims as an artist - but primarily they are mirrors of the national taste, weathervanes of popular opinion, reflectors of American attitudes in the years from 1835 to 1907.

In their prints can be found the whole florid panorama of our national life in the mid-nineteenth century, from the baroque elegance of urban mores to the idyllic simplicities of our country life and the gaucherie of a land acutely aware of it frontier. Thus, we have prints showing fashionable turnouts in Central Park, Thanksgiving celebrations in New England and the perils of crossing the plains."


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