The Crayon
The Crayon was an American art journal published from January 1855 to July 1861. The Crayon started as a weekly quarto of 16 pages, and a year later became a 32-page monthly. It was created by the painter William J. Stillman (1828–1901) and John Durand (1822–1908), both of whom served sequentially as editor for its entire run. Presented as "a journal devoted to the graphic arts and the literature related to them," The Crayon was called "the best art journal of the period."[1]
The circle of writers who contributed to the magazine were highly influenced by John Ruskin and aestheticism. The group included such authors as Ruskin himself, Asher Brown Durand, Henry James Sr., Charles Eliot Norton, William Allingham, Frederic George Stephens, John Lucas Tupper, William Bell Scott and Arthur Hugh Clough. William Michael Rossetti served, at Ruskin's recommendation, as London correspondent for The Crayon.
Notes
- ↑ Mott, Frank Luther (1938). A History of American Magazines, 1850-1865. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
References
- Burton, Anthony (1976). "Nineteenth-Century Periodicals." In: The Art Press: Two Centuries of Art Magazines. London: The Art Book Company.
- Casteras, Susan P. (1990). English Pre-Raphaelitism and its Reception in America in the Nineteenth Century. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
- Dyson, Stephen L. (2014). The Last Amateur: The Life of William J. Stillman. Albany, NY.: State University of New York Press.
- Klein, Rachel N. (2020). "Art and Industry: Debates of the 1850s". In: Art Wars: The Politics of Taste in Nineteenth-Century New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 95–127.
- Townsend, Francis G. (1953). "The American Estimate of Ruskin, 1847-1860," Philological Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, pp. 69–82.
- Stillman, William James (1901). The Autobiography of a Journalist, Vol. I. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
External links
- The Crayon at JSTOR
- The Crayon at Hathi Trust
