Rufus Porter rediscovered : artist, inventor, journalist, 1792-1884
"[Rufus Porter] pioneered and made outstanding contriubtions in the field of American art, and in science and journalism as well... Porter worked steadily at the trade of itinerant artist from 1815 to around 1840... Porter had established a mobile one-man factory for original portraiture and interior decoration... [Following 1825] Porter devoted himself chiefly to mural painting. In the 1840s he published and edited the New York Mehanic, American Mechanic and Scientific American. The latter, which he founded in 1845, was one of the most important journals of its time, as it is today"--from p. 3, 4, 7
Print Book, English, ©1980
C.N. Potter : Distributed by Crown, New York, ©1980