Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran : Tourism and the American Landscape

New York: Bulfinch Press, 2006. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Dust jacket may show minimal edge wear.. Glossy yellow boards; color-pictorial dust jacket with cream lettering. xii, 180 pp. with color and other images throughout. Published for the exhibition at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, May 19-October 29, 2006. "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape is published in conjunction with a major exhibition mounted by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum that will showcase, for the first time in over two decades, the museum's extraordinary collection of American art, including the largest holdings of works by Homer and Church in the world. Five original essays will accompany the two hundred illustrations to show how these artists' depictions helped create a notion of America as a land of purity and beauty, harmony, and opportunity."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Foreword /; Paul Warwick Thompson --; Introduction /; Barbara Bloemink --; Landscape icons, tourism, and land development in the Northeast /; Gail S. Davidson --; The; best possible view : pictorial representation in the American West /; Floramae McCarron-Cates --; The; pastoral ideal : Winslow Homer's bucolic America /; Sarah Burns --; America inside out : the view from the parlor /; Karal Ann Marling --; Selected timeline /; Athena Preston.