Clyde Singer's America

by Nannette V. Maciejunes and M.J. Albacete

This is a study of the work of Clyde Singer, best known for his American Scene paintings. His early work, primarily oils and watercolours, focuses on rural and small-town life, but later in his career... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873389212
• ISBN13: 9780873389211
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Kent State University Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.3" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Savoring a Legacy

Savoring a Legacy, by Tom Wachunas (Martha's husband) "Clyde Singer's America" is the catalogue that accompanied the 2008 joint exhibition at the Canton Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art, and it's a finalist for a 2009 Ohioana Library Association Award. As exhibition catalogues go, this one is a real gem both for its subject, painter Clyde Singer (1908-1999), and the solid writing by M.J. Albacete (executive director of the Canton Museuem of Art), with an additional essay by Nannette Maciejunes (executive director of the Columbus Museum of Art) and Christopher Duckworth(executive editor at the Columbus Museum of Art). The book's 123 full-color reproductions are true to the original paintings, offering a comprehensive (and much needed)tribute to an artist who can fairly be called the last master of the American Scene genre. The Maciejunes-Duckworth essay expertly addresses Singer's work in the historic context of the Ashcan School and the disciples who expanded its gritty urban realism by painting the broader Midwestern landscape, capturing the American heartland in all its industrial and rural richness. But it is Albacete's sure, easy writing style that paints for us a warm and resonating biography of Singer - the man and the artist. Albacete delivers his portrait with the same delightful vigor with which Singer himself lived and painted. The author's commanding insights will leave you, I'm quite sure, with a well-deserved respect and admiration for a prolific painter as well as a twinge of sadness over the passing of a vibrant era in both American painting and American living.