Tryon Artists: 1892 - 1942

by Michael J. McCue.

Published in a numbered, limited edition of 500, in conjunction with the 2001 exhibition at The Upstairs Gallery in Tryon, North Carolina. Hardbound 8.5 x 11, 192 pages, 79 color and 90 black and white illustrations. Includes exhibition checklist of 130 works exhibited, by 34 artists with portraits who worked in the artists' colony. Individual biographies of these painters, sculptors, illustrators and fine art photographers, plus six others who lived or sojourned in Tryon before World War II, 37 portraits of artists.

Appendix briefly describing 30 other visual artists known to have spent time in Tryon during the period. Essay by Michael McCue, presenting an overview of Tryon's place in the cultural life of North Carolina and the nation, and suggesting why its artists' colony previously has not been recognized in the scholarly literature. He shows that it was the state's most important artists' colony for fifty years, and one of the most cosmopolitan and eclectic art communities in the South. This edition is out of print. Information about many of these artists, and illustrations of their work, is contained in Paris and Tryon available now.

George Aid Roy Elliott Bates Cecilia Beaux Edward Bennett Joseph Birren John Sylvan Brown Gabrielle DeV. Clements Josephine Sibley Couper Gertrude Spurr Cutts Elliott Daingerfield Robert Lincoln Denison Laurence Doubleday Louisa Richardson Edsall Homer Ellertson Edward Waldo Emerson Emma Payne Erskine Harold Perry Erskine Howard Giles J. Duncan Gleason Anne Bosworth Greene

Jean Stansbury Holden Margaret Law Lawrence Mazzanovich Margaret Morley Diana & Anne Nash Anna Pitkin Ruth C. Pratt Fred W. Reich Louis Rowell George B. Shepherd William Steene Augustus Vincent Tack Lorado Taft Amelia Van Buren Eleanor Vance Amelia Watson Ralph Whiteside Lois Wilcox Madeline Yale Wynne Other Artists

New Edition Forthcoming
ISBN 0-9726801-2-8

The revised and expanded edition is projected for publication in late 2013, featuring a Smythe-sewn binding, hard-cover with full-color dust jacket, and an index. The additional artists profiled in the new Tryon Artists will be Clifford Berryman, Amanda Fuldner, David Silvette, Saidie Adler May, Alfred J. Jensen, William B. Kruse, Dorothy Brintnall, Ernest Harrison Barnes, Hansel Mieth, Rosalind C. Pratt, and Stella Sassoon. Scholars and collectors with interest in these additional artists are invited to submit images and information about them to Proposals Editor for inclusion in the book.

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