Artist exhibit materials and historic periodicals--Nast, Frost, Harper's Weekly, the Spiker

Title

Artist exhibit materials and historic periodicals--Nast, Frost, Harper's Weekly, the Spiker

Subject

Morris County (N.J.); History; Sources; Newspapers; Art Prints; Documents

Description

Christmas Drawings of Thomas Nast with posters and brochures of Thomas Nast exhibits. A portfolio of 30 reproductions 11x14". The World Publishing Company, 1970.

The Spiker post-World War I newspapers published in France, February and March 1919, one franc.

Harper's Weekly issues: May 27, 1876; July 1, 1876, July 6, 18876, July 22, 1876.

Arthur B. Frost: illustrated story "A Night at the Tile Club", 6 pages; "The Music for the Dance", photogravue, 1891, 13x17".

Monmouth Museum Print Portfolio, No. 1: Views of the Jersey Shore, 1869-1885 (reproductions on heavy stock). 1)The Beach at Long Branch, by Winslow Homer, Appleton's journal of Literature, Science and Art, August 21, 1869; 2) Squidding for Blue-Fish at Asbury Park, by R.T. Davis, Harper's Weekly, July 3, 1880; 3) Grand Stand, Monmouth park-- The Hurdle Race, by A.R. Ward, Harper's Weekly, August 13, 1870; 4) The Second Day's Race for the America's Cup--The Run Down the Wind, by J.O. Davidson, Harper's Weekly, September 26, 1885.

Matted prints: Corner of Warren and Greene Streets, and Pennington Road, Trenton, New Jersey; Steamboat landing at South Amboy, New Jersey. Neither identified by artist, date, method.

Creator

Morris County Library

Source

NJ 974.974 MOR BOX 54

Date

Varied: 1876-1919

Format

JPEG

Collection Items

Corner of Warren and Greene Streets, and Pennington Road, Trenton, New Jersey
Matted print depicting the corner of Warren and Greene Streets, and Pennington Road, Trenton, New Jersey. Artist, date, and method not identified.

Steamboat Landing at South Amboy, New Jersey
Matted print depicting the Steamboat Landing at South Amboy, New Jersey. Artist, date, and method not identified.

The Beach At Long Branch
Long Branch New Jersey was a source of inspiration for artist Winslow Homer. This wood engraving was the first of five studies Homer was to make of this popular resort.

Squidding for Blue-Fish At Asbury Park
An illustrator and artist-correspondent for Harper's Weekly between 1861 and 1884, Theodore Russell Davis was best known for his illustrations of the Far West. A few years after he drew this scene, Davis retired and spent the last ten years of his…

Grand Stand, Monmouth Park -- The Hurdle Race
Alfred R. Waud was a artist-correspondent for Harper's Weekly during the Civil War. He spent the post war years touring the West as a staff artist for this magazine.

The gala event of 1870 at the Jersey Shore was the inauguration of racing at…

The Second Day's Race For The America's Cup--The Run Down The Wind
Julian Oliver Davidson was a talented marine artist who, between 1873 and 1885, contributed many illustrations of the America's cup races and other yachting events to Harper's Weekly. For years the America's cup races were held off Sandy Hook.

In…

The Music For The Dance
Arthur Burdett Frost (usually cited as A.B. Frost) was an American illustrator, graphic artist, and painter, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania c. 1851. Frost found his first staff illustration job at New York Graphic and a year later was working…

Harper's Weekly Saturday May 27, 1876
Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays, and humor, alongside…

Harper's Weekly Saturday July 22, 1876
Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays, and humor, alongside…

Harper's Weekly Saturday July 8, 1876
Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays, and humor, alongside…
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