Gordon Hendricks

Gordon Hendricks (* around 1917 ; † 1980 ) was an American art and film historian.

In 1961, Hendricks published the book The Edison motion picture myth in which he showed that the invention of the first devices for cinema screenings attributed to Thomas Alva Edison actually happened by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson . In 1975 he wrote about Eadweard Muybridge , in which he saw the father of cinema. This book was reprinted in 2001.

In addition to these works on film history, Hendricks published books on art history. So he wrote about Winslow Homer and Albert Bierstadt . Another of his subjects was Thomas Eakins, known with Muybridge . It was Hendricks who first asked the question of Eakins' homosexuality in his 1974 book on Eakins.

After his death, Hendricks left two important collections in the Archives of American Art : one on Thomas Eakins, the other on film history.

Works

• The Edison motion picture myth , University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1961
• Eadweard Muybridge: the father of the motion picture , Grossman Publishers, New York, 1975, ISBN 0-670-28679-6
• Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West , HN Abrams, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-8109-0151-X
• The life and work of Winslow Homer , HN Abrams, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-8109-1063-2
• The photographs of Thomas Eakins , Grossman Publishers, New York, 1972, ISBN 0-670-55261-5
• The life and work of Thomas Eakins , Grossman Publishers, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-42795-0

Web links

• Hendricks Collection on Film History