The Art of William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas

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The Art of William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas is written by Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller and published by Arcadia Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1467152234 (ISBN 10) and 9781467152235 (ISBN 13).

From farmers cutting hay with scythes to dancers jigging to fiddle music on barn floors, artist William Sidney Mount's paintings reveal a seldom recognized world on the North Shore of Long Island. At a time when racist caricatures were the norm, Mount portrayed people of color in his mid-nineteenth-century works with great humanity. The subjects who posed for Mount include Rachel the eel spearer, Henry Brazier the left-handed fiddler, George Freeman the jaunty banjo player and other agricultural laborers, domestic workers and musicians. Authors Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller honor by name the once anonymous Black and mixed-race models depicted in Long Island artist William Sidney Mount's internationally renowned paintings. Book jacket.