"Many well-known artists, including Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, and lesser-known artists like Harriet Hosmer are closely examined, as is the art world of t

This book is a study of 19th-century American art within the context of French art as presented at the Paris Salons--annual exhibitions of contemporary art whic

"I was in high spirits all through my unwise teens, considerably puffed up, after my drawings began to sell, with that pride of independence which was a new thi

During the nineteenth century, American artists, writers, and philosophers collaborated in the formation of a culture devoted to the country's natural splendors

This unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction