Product details
- Hardcover: 156 pages
- Publisher: Brandylane (June 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1883911605
- ISBN-13: 978-1883911607
- Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.5 x 10 inches
Lefevre James Cranstone: His Life and Art
$32.00
Nineteenth-century artist Lefevre James Cranstone recorded the life and landscape of three continents. For the first time, Cranstone’s life and work in England, America and Australia are assembled into one volume. In Donald L. Smith’s book, we quickly discover a gifted artist whose work deserves world recognition. Cranstone’s watercolors, oils, crayon, pen and ink, lithographs, and engravings bring his subjects to vivid life and demonstrate his versatility with diverse media. Few painters of his time matched the immaculate detail of his sketches.
Smith’s book is a study of both art and history, as the artist’s work documents the cities, rural landscapes, and people of the time. Cranstone’s ten-month sojourn to America between 1859 and 1860 resulted in almost 300 detailed sketches which capture antebellum America, with its beautiful scenery and its cruel slave trade.
Lefevre James Cranstone: His Life and Art has received high praise from curators of museums of art and history, and by Cranstone art collector Senator John D. Rockefeller IV.
