Edwin Lord Weeks: 90+ Academic Paintings

by Daniel Ankele, Denise Ankele, Edwin Lord Weeks (Illustrator)

EDWIN LORD WEEKS Art Book contains 90+ professionally color corrected reproductions of landscapes and genre scenes with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). 1849 in Boston, November 17, 1903. AcademicINTERESTING § Weeks was a pupil of Leon Bonnat when he was in Paris.§ He traveled extensively to the Middle East and India for his subject matter. His paintings of Moroccan subjects were well received at the Salons in France and United States.§ Weeks wrote and illustrated From the Black Sea through Persia and India in 1895 and Episodes of Mountaineering in 1897.§ Weeks received many honors, he was a member of the Légion d'honneur, France and the Secession, Munich and an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany.NOTABLE Open ­Air Restaurant, Lahore; Royal Elephant at the Gateway to the Jami Masjid, Mathura; and Before A Mosque.

103 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 22, 2011