Bayou Bend - Education Bayou Bend MFAH

Books & Articles

Fine Arts


Paintings

B     Breen, T.H. "The Meaning of Likeness," Word and Image 6 (October-December 1990): 325-350. [Excellent article]
C Craven, Wayne. Colonial American Portraiture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. (N7593.1 .C73 1986)
L Lovell, Margaretta. "Reading Eighteenth-Century American Family Portraits: Social Images and Self-Images." Winterthur Portfolio 22 (Winter 1987): 243-264.
Lovell, Margaretta. "The Terre Inconnue of the Colonial Face." Winterthur Portfolio 24 (Spring 1989): 69-76.
N Nygren, Edward. Views and Visions: American Landscape before 1830. Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1986. (N8214.5 U6 N9 1986)
Q Quick, Michael, Marvin Sadik, and William Gerdts. American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981. (ND 1311 .A47)
Quimby, Ian, ed. American Painting to 1776: A Reappraisal. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1971. (ND 207 .W5 1971)
R Rebora, Carrie and Paul Staiti, et al. John Singleton Copley in America. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. (ND 237 .C7 A4 1995)
S Saunders, Richard H. John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter. New Haven and London: Barra Foundation/Yale University Press, 1995. (NS 237 .S59 S28)
Saunders, Richard, and Ellen Miles. American Colonial Portraits, 1700-1776. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1987. (N 7593.1 .S28 1987)
Y Yunginger, Jennifer A. Is She or Isn't He: Identifying Gender in Folk Portraits of Children. Sandwich, MA: Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, 1995. (ND 1329.3 C45 Y86 1995) [Helpful in understanding the Peale portrait of a little boy]

Prints

F

 

 

Fowble, E. McSherry. Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987. (NE 625 .H46 1987) [Good information on many of our prints]
S Sandweiss, Martha A., Rick Stewart, and Ben W. Huseman. Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerrotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum; Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. (E 415.2 A78 A47 1989) [Good information on our Mexican War prints]

Top


Introduction | Workshops | School Tours | Lesson Plans | Research Guide | Other Resources
Home | About Bayou Bend | Information | Collection | Gardens | Miss Hogg | Education | Site Map

This website was a created as a class project by students at the University of Houston College of Education. It is not the approved website for the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens or the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Refer to the MFAH website for information about Bayou Bend at: http://www.mfah.org.