American views: essays on American art / John Wilmerding

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991. 1st Ediiton. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xx, 357 pages: illustrations (some color); 25 x 28 cm. Contents: 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. Subjects: Eakins, Thomas 1844-1916. Homer, Winslow 1836-1910. Art, American 20th century.Artists, American 19th century.