Ingbretson Studio

of Drawing and Painting

- Paul Ingbretson

VIDEO

Evolution of Impressionism series:

Paul Ingbretson Talks About Painting:

(to podcast production)

Text and Scanned Resources

MAX MELDRUM "The Science of Appearances"
The Science of Appearances is one painter's conclusions about best approximating the look of nature. Australian born author, Max Meldrum is one of the voices of the early and middle Twentieth Century trying to clarify the purely visual nature of the problem of representation.

R.H. IVES GAMMELL "Dennis Miller Bunker"
Dennis Miller Bunker is painter, R. H. Ives Gammell's, review of the prematurely shortened life of a very strong Boston. area painter who just happened to be the first teacher of Paxton who himself was Gammell's greatest influence. Insights on the work and thinking of one of the first Boston area painters to incorporate Impressionism from a direct descendent is uniquely valuable.

WILLIAM M. WARREN "Twenty-Four Sittings with Edmund Tarbell"
Twenty-four Sittings With Edmund Tarbell is the article-length reminiscences of one of the painter's portrait sitters, William M. Warren, founding president of Boston University. He details the painting-related commentary of Tarbell made in the course of those sittings.

PHILIP HALE "Vermeer"
Vermeer by the Monet-influenced Boston painter, Philip Hale, was written in consult with William Paxton, both painters strongly influenced by the thinking of the men of the Boston School. The book helps one to understand the 'holistic' thinking that became more common post Monet but was already evident in Vermeer.

R. H. IVES GAMMELL "Ingres via Amaury-Duval"
R. H. Ives Gammell translation into English of Amaury-Duval's reminiscences about his teacher, J. A. D. Ingres, is valuable because it comes from a trained painter but even more so in that it also contains Gammell's own observations about this great 19th Century Academician's shoptalk bringing his thinking, closer to our times.

AIMEÈ MOORE "The Science of Drawing in Art
Aimeè Moore's, Science of Drawing in Art, is an interesting combination or fusion of the underlying thinking of both academician and impressionist regarding drawing. It is included also because it contains one of the rare places you will see a painterly discussion of how to set up and critique one's still life.

R. H. IVES GAMMELL "The Twilight of Painting
The Twilight of Painting is an effort by one of the leading 20th Century American painters, R. H. Ives Gammell, to rethink and rebuild painting in our time. As its dedication suggests it serves as a 'manifesto' for the reconstruction of our form along the great lines established by our predecessors.

LEONARDO DaVINCI "Treatise on Painting"
Leonardo DaVinci, Treatise on Painting, presents the most important analyses of elements of the art of painting and the seen world from a Renaissance painter's perspective. Leonardo's observations of everything from the line of shadow on objects to their color differences when seen close up versus far away forms the basis for the subsequent science of representation to build on. Practical consideration like how far back to stand from your subject to avoid perspective distortions and how to handle mid-tones remain truly useful today.

WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN "Men and Memories"
Men and Memories is the memoirs of William Rothenstein, a British painter of the 19-20th Century who knew virtually everyone. This volume, and one called, Since Fifty, contains an astonishing amount of information about the lives and thinking of the painters and sculptors (and others) of his time which again, coming from a trained painter is well worth a serious review.

R. A. M. STEVENSON "Velasquez"
Velasquez by R. A. M. Stevenson is an analysis of the work of the 'first impressionist' written by a fellow student of Sargent under Carolus-Duran who himself took Velasquez as his central influence. Clarifies key aspects of impressionism pre-Monet.

Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS "Discourses"
Sir Joshua Reynolds Discourses were presented annually to the student body during his presidency at the Royal Academy and contain the valuable painter's wisdom, ideas and ideals including, for example, 'Genius lies in seeing the thing as a whole.' Some is as down to earth as describing the best lighting for a painting studio.

R. H. IVES GAMMELL "William McGregor Paxton"
Gammell's Paxton bio is one of those rare communications in writing of a painter about his master, in this case a master trained under J. L. Gerome at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris when it was thought of as the place to be. With obvious loyalty and genuine appreciation Gammell nevertheless presents the painter's background and contributions to painting in a fairly objective way and, typical of his writing, incorporates generally valuable painting information.