Ross Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3950778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Monuments to the “Memorable Gale”
Reconstructing the controversy that arose around a proposed memorial to the Great September Gale—a Category 4 hurricane that battered Providence, Rhode Island in 1815—this essay explores the differing ways that public leaders and everyday citizens remembered the tropical storms that hit New England in the nineteenth century
Representing Oceanic New England
IN the winter of 2024, the long-buried wreck of the schooner Ada K. Damon—a fishing vessel that ran aground in 1909, broke up, and was eventually buried beneath layers of silt—re-emerged from beneath the sands on Crane Beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Dazzled by the vessel's sudden reappearance (after an especially dramatic king tide), local reporters described the wreck as a “surprise” and a “wild discovery.”1 Over the last twenty years, the Ada…
Sculpting the ‘Idea of Insurance’
Journal Article Sculpting the 'Idea of Insurance': John Quincy Adams Ward's Protection Group and the Rise of the American Life Sector Get access Ross Barrett Ross Barrett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 95–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcae004 Published: 17 June 2024 Article history Received: 07 March 2023 Revision received: 12 January 2024 Ed…
"Ross Barrett. Review of "Painting Dissent
Harnett’s Habit
Smoking held a prominent place in William Harnett’s private experience and painterly endeavors. Between 1875 and 1880 the artist composed dozens of small-scale still lifes that foregrounded smoking products and paraphernalia, and engaged the vibrant promotional culture that arose around tobacco after the Civil War. Aiming these pictures at respectable male viewers who were, like himself, immersed in this culture, Harnett shaped complicated accoun…
Landscape and Real Estate
Landscape in American History
Bursting the Bubble
This article examines John Quidor’s 1832 painting Money Diggers as a pictorial allegory of real estate speculation that engages the cultural discourses and material forces of the antebellum land market. As I show, Quidor was an active participant in that market: in the 1820s and 1830s, the artist speculated enthusiastically on land in the Illinois Military Tract, engineering a series of profitable deals that underwrote his tenuous career as an ar…
Oil Culture
Violent Prophecies
Speculations in Paint
In his lifetime, Ernest Lawson (1873–1939) was celebrated as a painterly “pioneer” who discovered the semiurban lands surrounding downtown New York. Throughout his career, Lawson focused his attentions on the city’s half‐developed border, where colonial‐era farms, apartment blocks, tenements, and squatter shanties intermingled. These contradictory spaces were the material products of an uncoordinated and irregular process of urbanization driven b…
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Speculations in Paint
In his lifetime, Ernest Lawson (1873–1939) was celebrated as a painterly “pioneer” who discovered the semiurban lands surrounding downtown New York. Throughout his career, Lawson focused his attentions on the city’s half‐developed border, where colonial‐era farms, apartment blocks, tenements, and squatter shanties intermingled. These contradictory spaces were the material products of an uncoordinated and irregular process of urbanization driven b…
Violent Prophecies
Oil Culture
Bursting the Bubble
This article examines John Quidor’s 1832 painting Money Diggers as a pictorial allegory of real estate speculation that engages the cultural discourses and material forces of the antebellum land market. As I show, Quidor was an active participant in that market: in the 1820s and 1830s, the artist speculated enthusiastically on land in the Illinois Military Tract, engineering a series of profitable deals that underwrote his tenuous career as an ar…
Landscape and Real Estate
Landscape in American History
Harnett’s Habit
Smoking held a prominent place in William Harnett’s private experience and painterly endeavors. Between 1875 and 1880 the artist composed dozens of small-scale still lifes that foregrounded smoking products and paraphernalia, and engaged the vibrant promotional culture that arose around tobacco after the Civil War. Aiming these pictures at respectable male viewers who were, like himself, immersed in this culture, Harnett shaped complicated accoun…
"Ross Barrett. Review of "Painting Dissent
Monuments to the “Memorable Gale”
Reconstructing the controversy that arose around a proposed memorial to the Great September Gale—a Category 4 hurricane that battered Providence, Rhode Island in 1815—this essay explores the differing ways that public leaders and everyday citizens remembered the tropical storms that hit New England in the nineteenth century
Representing Oceanic New England
IN the winter of 2024, the long-buried wreck of the schooner Ada K. Damon—a fishing vessel that ran aground in 1909, broke up, and was eventually buried beneath layers of silt—re-emerged from beneath the sands on Crane Beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Dazzled by the vessel's sudden reappearance (after an especially dramatic king tide), local reporters described the wreck as a “surprise” and a “wild discovery.”1 Over the last twenty years, the Ada…
Sculpting the ‘Idea of Insurance’
Journal Article Sculpting the 'Idea of Insurance': John Quincy Adams Ward's Protection Group and the Rise of the American Life Sector Get access Ross Barrett Ross Barrett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 95–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcae004 Published: 17 June 2024 Article history Received: 07 March 2023 Revision received: 12 January 2024 Ed…
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