Publication of symposium papers presented at the Morgan Library & Museum in January 2009; papers were related to the study of the oil sketch.
Compiled by Jennifer Tonkovich ; foreword by William M. Griswold ; preface by Eugene V. Thaw ; catalogue raisonné by Esther Bell ; with essays by Charlotte Gere [and others].
Contents: Collecting oil sketches : a reminiscence / Charlotte Gere -- Manipulating paint : the shorthand of plein-air technique / Ann Hoenigswald -- Addressing the outdoor / John Gage -- Landscape with Erminia and Claude's paintings from nature / Richard Rand -- Two series of studies in oil on paper numbered by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes and Simon Denis / Geneviève Lacambre -- Impressionism and the open-air oil sketch / John House -- Catalogue raisonné of the Thaw Collection / Esther Bell.