In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depictions of New England flooded the American art scene. Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, and Julian Weir, and other well-known artists produced images of quaint villages, agricultural labor, scenic rural churches, and the distinctive New England landscape. Julia B. Rosenbaum asks why and how a range of artists including Impressionist and Modernist painters and sculptors and exhibitors fashioned this particular vision of New England in their work. Against the backdrop of industrialization, immigration, and persistent...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depictions of New England flooded the American art scene. Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Theodor...
This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.
This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fas...
An in-depth look inside Olana, one of America s greatest estates, which was designed and built by Frederic Church, the most renowned of the Hudson River School painters.
An in-depth look inside Olana, one of America s greatest estates, which was designed and built by Frederic Church, the most renowned of the Hudson Riv...
