Charles Wysocki, like Norman Rockwell, are not names you'll find in books about American Art but both were incredibly popular with the public. Wysocki said he was influenced by the paintings of Joseph Pickett (1848-1918) and there is a distinct similarity, though Pickett's work would be called fine art.
The book is a handsome production with excellent design and printed on a semi-matt gloss paper for the two hundred works by Wysocki. Having developed his style (the bird's-eye view of buildings with very little perspective and smoke from chimneys always a quarter of a circle: nine o'clock to twelve) he stuck with it but away from the rural small town paintngs there are several really impressive still-life compositions that I prefer to the dozens of landscapes. This is probably the only worthwhile book of Wysocki's paintings.
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