Robert S. Olpin (1940–2005)
Auteur de Painters of the Wasatch Mountains
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Robert S. Olpin
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Olpin, Robert Spencer
- Date de naissance
- 1940-08-30
- Date de décès
- 2005-11-05
- Lieu de sépulture
- Murray City Cemetery, Murray, Utah, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Professions
- art history professor
chair of the art department - Organisations
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
University of Utah
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 35
- Popularité
- #405,584
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 3
However the real delight of the book is the nearly two hundred and thirty pages comprising the Portfolio of Images, full colour reproductions, one or occasionally two to a page. The large almost square format of the book allows for good size images without the need to turn the page to accommodate those of landscape proportions; and a few pictures are even reproduced life size. The quality of the images is excellent often revealing the texture of the brush work in the original. Most artists are represented by quite a few examples of their work, they provide for a range of painting styles; the majority of the paintings are in oils, with a few watercolours, and date from around the 1850s to as recently as 2005. In total there are about two hundred and seventy five artworks in colour.
This is a sumptuous work, what an art book should be with the emphasis on the beautifully reproduced paintings and the text kept to a minimum.… (plus d'informations)