Includes bibliographical references (p. 158) and index.
Contents:
Perspectives on a collection: historic American paintings at the Brooklyn Museum -- First impressions: early American art -- Coining American subjects: the antebellum decades -- New maturity: American painting in the Civil War era -- Remaking the American image: cosmopolitan painting at the turn of the century.
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