Making American Art: Narrative Art for a New Democracy

Barbara Dayer Gallati is curator emerita of American Art, Brooklyn Museum. She is the author of Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children (2004). Linda S. Ferber is vice president and senior art historian at the New-York Historical Society. She is the author of Pastoral Interlude: William T. Richards in Chester County. Ella M. Foshay is an independent art historian, and author, with Barbara Novak, of Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, and William Cullen Bryant (2000). Kimberly Orcutt is curator of American art at the New-York Historical Society, and chair emerita of the Association of Historians of American Art.

• Foreword by Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, the New-York Historical Society Taste, Art, and Cultural Power in Nineteenth-Century America by Barbara Dayer Gallati Nature's Nation: American Taste and Landscape Painting, 1825-1876 by Linda S. Ferber Luman Reed and Robert L. Stuart: A Double Portrait by Ella M. Foshay Artist Biographies and Catalogue Entries by Barbara Dayer Gallati and Kimberly Orcutt

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