The Fascinating History of the First Significant Collection of Gothic Art in the United States.

The Gilded Age (1865-1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As a

Dealing Art on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1860-1940 aims to bring the marketplace dynamic into sharper focus with its essays which examine the many functionari

Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped

On the basis of extensive archival research, the essays in this volume examine the minutiae of object transaction in the late nineteenth-century art market with