TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilmerding,John
TI  - Signs of the artist: signatures and self-expression in American paintings 
SN  - 0300097794
AV  - ND205 .W523 2003
U1  - 759.130278 21
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - b Yale University Press
KW  - Painters
KW  - United States
KW  - Autographs
KW  - Signatures (Writing)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index; 1; European Precedents --; 2; American History, Still Life, and Landscape --; 3; Genre and Later Still-Life Painting --; 4; Impressionism and Realism --; 5; Modernism
N2  - "Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our individual personalities. In this book, John Wilmerding - an eminent historian of American art - explores the unconventional use of signatures in paintings. The author focuses on American artists who have not simply signed their works on a corner of the canvas but intentionally placed their signatures within the pictorial space of the painting. A painter's name or initials might, for instance, appear as an illusion on a wall or floor, on an object within an interior, or on a form in a landscape. Wilmerding considers the significance of such signatures in works by twenty-seven American artists, from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, who projected themselves into their art in tantalizing ways."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -