Download or read book Measure and Design in American Painting, 1760-1860 written by Lisa Fellows Andrus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977. The purpose of this study is to locate the sources for the American style of painting characterised by measure and design – the representation of the specific and familiar according to principles of pictorial order. The reader shall see that there were a variety of conventions available to the artist and that his selection of one or another of them depended upon pragmatic, philosophical, and aesthetic considerations.