Kentucky: The Master Painters from the Frontier Era to the Great Depression

by Estill Curtis Pennington

This art history of Kentucky from its founding to 1930 features the work of 73 artists, including such well-known painters as Matthew Harris Jouett, Paul Sawyier, Carl Brenner and Harvey Joiner. Lesser-known painters such as Eleanor Pryor, Hattie Hutchcraft Hill and Sudduth Goff receive the renewed attention that is their due. Early portraiture, romantic art of "Old Kentucky," dramatic landscapes and impressionist scenes are displayed in full color throughout the five chapters of this hardback. An extensive biographical/bibliographical section concludes the book.

The deluxe edition sold out almost immediately. Copies of the standard edition are available through the secondary market.