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		A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster Jr. by Harlan Lane The extraordinary and untold story of John Brewster Jr., a preeminent Deaf American artist Until his death 150 years ago, John Brewster Jr. was one of the most prominent portrait painters in America. Born deaf in 1766, his hauntingly beautiful portraits have a directness and intensity of vision that were rarely equaled. Harlan Lane's groundbreaking biography includes little-known and invaluable information on the early French roots of the American Deaf-World, the first school for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, the integrated Deaf community of Martha's Vineyard, and Contemporary Deaf art. Superbly illustrated with twenty-four pages of color images, A Deaf Artist in Early America provides a rare glimpse of Brewster and his art; it also contextualizes the distinctive culture, language, social institutions, and legacy of the Deaf in America.
		Folk Painters of America by Robert Charles Bishop Robert Bishop, the late director of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, wrote this out-of-print industry standard on American Folk Painting. Illustrated with over 400 images, 70 in color.
		American Primitive Painting by Jean Lipman First published in 1942, This book provides interesting image comparisons between paintings by limners and those by academic painters. It also includes examples of genre scenes. Over 100 illustrations.
		American Folk Painters of Three Centuries by Jean Lipman (Editor), Tom Armstrong (Photographer), Whitney Museum Of American Art This landmark book documents the American Folk Painting Exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1980. Multiple essays cover the work of The Beardsley Limner, John Brewster Jr., Winthrop Chandler, Rufus Hathaway, Pieter Vanderlyn, James and John Bard, Hannah Cohoon, Joseph H. Davis, Erastus Salisbury Field, Edward Hicks, Jacob Maentel, Sheldon Peck, Ammi Phillips, Rufus Porter, Asahel Powers, and many others. An out-of-print classic.

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