Beschreibung:

XX, 357 S. Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Schnitt leicht angeschmutzt. - The allure of Mount Desert -- Thomas Cole in Maine -- Winslow Homer's Maine -- American waters : the flow of imagination -- Luminism and literature -- Under chastened light : the landscape of Rhode Island -- William Bradford : artist of the Arctic -- Fire and ice in American art : polarities from luminism to abstract expressionism -- Rembrandt Peale's Rubens Peale with a geranium -- Robert Salmon's Boston patrons -- George Caleb Bingham's geometries and the shape of America -- Winslow Homer in the 1870s -- Winslow Homer's Dad's coming -- Winslow Homer's Right and left -- Thomas Eakins's late portraits -- Locating Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- John F. Peto and the idea of still-life painting in nineteenth-century America -- Images of Lincoln in John F. Peto's late paintings -- George Bellows's boxing pictures and the American tradition. ISBN 9780691040905