Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings - Brief Article - Book Review

Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2004

Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings

By John Wilmerding

MA-220

Our price $40.00

This provocative book investigates how and where American artists signed their paintings and watercolors. Some are within the pictorial space while others are more traditionally in the lower left- or right-hand corner of the canvas. Still other artists signed with a symbol, like Whistler with his butterfly. Starting with Copley's Watson and the Shark, Wilmerding analyzes works by twenty-seven artists. 47 colorplates, 108 illustrations.

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