LUMINISM

looˈmĭnĭzˌəm, American art movement of the 19th cent. Luminism was an outgrowth of the Hudson River school. In its concern for capturing the effects of light and atmosphere it is sometimes linked to impressionism. Its practitioners included Frederick E. Church (in his early career), Fitz Hugh Lane, John F. Kensett, Sanford R. Gifford, and Martin Johnson Heade. They painted majestic landscapes and seascapes bathed in the mystical light of a pristine sky with an emphasis on Nature's grand scale.

See B. Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825–1875 (1980).

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American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience
Book by Barbara Novak; Icon Editions, 1979
Subjects: Painting, American, Painting, Modern--19th Century--United States
...80 5. Luminism AN ALTERNATIVE TRADITION...6. Fitz Hugh Lane A PARADIGM OF LUMINISM 110...these misunderstandings center around luminism and its American traits. As stressed...
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American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience
Book by Barbara Novak; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Painting, American--19th Century
...School Solutions 59 CHAPTER 5 Luminism: An Alternative Tradition 71...CHAPTER 6 Fitz H Lane: A Paradigm of Luminism 89 CHAPTER 7 Martin Johnson...misunderstandings center around luminism and its American traits. As stressed...
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A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th Century--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
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A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture
Book by Matthew Baigell; Icon Editions, 1996
Subjects: Art, American
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On Modern American Art: Selected Essays
Book by Robert Rosenblum; Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1999
Subjects: Art, American, Art, Modern--20th Century--United States
...Stuarts, would compose a beguiling international trio. Even Luminism, that American style and viewpoint most often singled out as...whose ancestry might take us not only to the realm of American Luminism but to such oddball visions of American eternity as provided...
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"Chop! Chop!": Progress in the Presentation of Western Visual History
Journal article by Brian W. Dippie; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004
Subjects: American West (Historical region)--History, American West (Historical region)--Social aspects, Frontier literature--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Works
...Sweeney, in exposing the pedigree of "luminism," a term that came into particular vogue...production makes up concepts such as luminism is useful." (1) Sweeneys argument is...nineteenth century, invented the term "luminism" to express a distinctively American...
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Vision and Revision: International Histories of American Art
Journal article by Jochen Wierich; American Studies International, Vol. 39, 2001
Subjects: American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Art criticism--History, Art, American--History, Born, Wolfgang--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hagen, Oskar--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hughes, Robert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Neumeyer, Alfred--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Novak, Barbara--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Frederick Kensett, and Fitz Hugh Lane. In luminism, according to Novak, the primitive tradition...and classical impulses culminated in luminism, Barbara Novak became the principal American...could not be reduced to linearity or luminism; the language of this art, according...


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Fact and Fiction
Magazine article by Michael Brenson; Artforum International, Vol. 38, September 1999
Subjects: Art museum curators--Interviews, Art--Exhibitions, Grynsztejn, Madeline--Interviews
...print-maker but ultimately pursued a degree in art history. Her masters thesis at Columbia University explored the connection between luminism and Eastern thought. Clearly, translation and transmigration, two concerns underlying the Carnegie International that will...
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Emma Tapley
Magazine article by Barry Schwabsky; Artforum International, Vol. 38, February 2000
Subjects: Landscape painting--Analysis, TAPLEY, EMMA--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...quite different from his industrial exurbia. In some paintings Tapleys sympathies with Romanticism in general, and American luminism in particular, ate evident, but elsewhere she works with the compressed space of modernist painting. (I wonder if shes studied...
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Isn't It Romantic?
Magazine article by Robert Rosenblum; Artforum International, Vol. 36, May 1998
Subjects: Abstract expressionism--Analysis, Romanticism in art--Analysis, Rothko, Mark--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...into a twentieth-century manifestation of what, rightly or wrongly, has been considered an indigenous American phenomenon, Luminism. Werent the unpopulated, head-on views of spellbinding sunsets and sunrises that enthralled such mid-nineteenth-century painters...
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Nature Lives in His Light: Sanford R. Gifford's Legacy in World Travel
Magazine article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; World and I, Vol. 19, September 2004
Subjects: Gifford, Sanford R.--Works, Painters (Artists)--Works, Painters--Works, Smithsonian Institution. National Gallery of Art--Exhibitions
...they depicted detailed, awe-inspiring vistas. Visitors can clearly see the differences between the Hudson River School and Luminism by comparing Giffords quieter approach, with its more subtle colors and compositions, to that of the English-born Thomas Cole...
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Gallery Chronicle
Magazine article by James Panero; New Criterion, Vol. 25, October 2006
Subjects: American art--History, Art museums--History, Art, American--History, New York, New York
...contemporary university. The catalogues first effort to define the title of the show doesnt appear until somewhere around page 132. "Luminism" was a term devised by John I. H. Baur in the 1940S, which Manthorne explains through a "reliance on gendered language: the...
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Nature Lives in His Light; Gifford Legacy in World Travel
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 3, 2004
Subjects: Cole, Thomas
...they depicted detailed, awe-inspiring vistas. Visitors can clearly see the differences between the Hudson River School and luminism by comparing Giffords quieter approach, with its more subtle colors and compositions, to that of the English-born Thomas Cole...


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Luminism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUMINISM loo miniz m, American art movement of the 19th cent. Luminism was an outgrowth of the Hudson River school . In its concern for capturing the effects of light and atmosphere it is...
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Gifford, Sanford R
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GIFFORD, SANFORD R. 1823 80, American painter, b. Greenfield, N.Y. A major painter of the American movement known as luminism , Gifford, who was influenced by Thomas Cole early in his career, was celebrated for his atmospheric landscapes. He grew...
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Lane, Fitz Hugh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...printmaker, b. Gloucester, Mass. A painter of ships and coastal panoramas, Lane is most notable as a leading figure in American luminism . He illuminated his canvases with warm, glowing yellow and pink skies reflected in water. The resulting paintings project...
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Whittredge, Thomas Worthington
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...He studied in Paris, Dusseldorf, and Rome before returning to the United States. He is numbered among the practitioners of luminism . His paintings contain a minutely executed tonal quality marked by intense illumination, expressing a mysterious, atmospheric...
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Heade, Martin Johnson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...briefly with Edward Hicks and in Europe, and later traveled in Central and South America. Heade is associated with American luminism , particularly in his uniquely lit canvases of coming thunderstorms. He painted dramatic seascapes and landscapes of New England...
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