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Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American painters, sculptors & engravers

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Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American painters, sculptors & engravers

by Glenn B. Opitz (Editor)

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Accession 9780938290049 ISBN 9780938290049 Publisher Apollo

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Topics and Themes

1. **American Art History & Cultural Heritage**
This dictionary spans American visual artists from the colonial era through the 20th century, serving as a foundational record of who made art in America and when. It functions as a primary map of the nation's artistic output across centuries.

Connect to books about: American art history, cultural history of the United States, colonial-era material culture, 20th-century American art movements.

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2. **Artist Biography & Prosopography**
The book compiles biographical data on approximately 11,000 individual artists — their training, exhibitions, and major works — making it a large-scale collective biography of a professional class.

Connect to books about: artist biographies, collective biography, prosopography, social history of the art world.

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3. **Printmaking, Engraving & Graphic Arts**
Engravers are explicitly included alongside painters and sculptors, making this a resource for the history of printmaking and reproductive graphic arts in America — a frequently overlooked discipline.

Connect to books about: history of printmaking, engraving techniques, graphic arts, reproductive media, illustration history.

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4. **Sculpture & Three-Dimensional Art**
The inclusion of sculptors across all periods places this alongside resources covering the full range of American three-dimensional artistic practice, from monument-makers to modernist sculptors.

Connect to books about: American sculpture, public monuments, bronze casting, decorative arts, material culture.

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5. **Art Reference, Lexicography & Encyclopedia Studies**
Originally compiled by Mantle Fielding in 1926 and later revised and enlarged, this work is itself an artifact of the art-reference tradition — a genre with its own history, methodology, and editorial challenges.

Connect to books about: history of reference works, art encyclopedias, lexicography, archival and bibliographic methodology.

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6. **Art Market, Collecting & Provenance**
The dictionary has long been a tool for art collectors, dealers, galleries, and auction houses seeking to authenticate and value works by identifying their makers — connecting it directly to the economics of art.

Connect to books about: art collecting, provenance research, art authentication, auction history, the art market.

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7. **Women Artists & Marginalized Voices in Art History**
The dictionary notably includes many female artists who are overlooked in other reference works, making it a quiet corrective to the male-dominated canon of traditional art history.

Connect to books about: women artists, feminist art history, forgotten or rediscovered artists, diversity in the Western canon.

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8. **Museology, Archival Practice & Art Institutions**
The dictionary records where artists exhibited and where works are held, functioning as a finding aid for museum collections and archives. Its original research notes are held at the Frick Art Library — linking it to institutional memory.

Connect to books about: museum studies, art archives, curatorial practice, library and information science in the arts.

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