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by Kathleen A. Foster

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Labeled as a traveling American folk artist when he was rediscovered in the mid-20th century, the mysterious Thomas Chambers here receives a fresh and creative reassessment. Although his distinctive sea- and landscapes appear in many American collections, little is known about this English-born painter, who arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and disappeared from record in the mid-1860s, leaving many paintings that later resurfaced in rural New York and Massachusetts. In this richly illustrated work, Kathleen A. Foster shows, however, that far from being simply an itinerant painter of folk art, Chambers actually enjoyed a professional, even entrepreneurial, relationship to the art world.

Foster performs close studies of Chambers's known works, his stylistic relationship to his brother (English marine painter George Chambers), and a newly discovered American auction record of 1845. Chambers, she argues, provided a popular landscape art for a middle class of mixed cosmopolitan and folk tastes. Bringing "fancy" painting to this new constituency, Chambers worked outside academic circles, drawing astutely from popular culture. In the 20th century, his rediscovery as "America's first modern" paid tribute to his independent spirit and decorative panache.

Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art


Exhibition Schedule:

Philadelphia Museum of Art (September 27 - December 28, 2008)

The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York (February 8 - April 19, 2009)

American Folk Art Museum, New York (September 29 - March 7, 2010)

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington (March 26 - May 30, 2010)

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  • Title Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808-1869
  • Author Kathleen A. Foster
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Philadelphia Museum of Art, New Haven
  • Publication date 2008-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300141054 / 030014105X
  • Weight 2.75 lbs (1.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.3 x 9.3 x 0.8 in (28.70 x 23.62 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Landscape in art, Marine art
  • Dewey Decimal Code 759

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  • New York Review of Books, 01/15/2009, Page 50

About the author

Kathleen A. Foster is The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior Curator of American Art and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the author of Thomas Eakins Rediscovered and editor of A Drawing Manual by Thomas Eakins, both published by Yale.

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