painting, american

Examines the life and work of the popular American artist.

Examines the life and work of the strong-willed American woman who studied in Paris and became a noted contributor to the Impressionist movement.

Profiles seventy-three American works of art held by the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery, discussing the artists' lives and the works' historical backgrounds and contents.

Presents an overview of painting over the course of eight hundred years, and examines approximately 450 paintings, with in-depth details for nearly two hundred works.

Art historian Sister Wendy Beckett presents a personal anthology of more than 115 American paintings, each with a brief description; arranged alphabetically by artist's last name.

Color portfolio of American landscape paintings of the Hudson River School with commentary on some of the movement's leading artists, such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, whose works provided some of the first documentation of the fledgling mation's wilderness areas.

Color portfolio of the paintings of Edward Hopper, with commentary on the artist's life and work which features the recurring theme of the isolation of individuals in American society.

Examines the life and work of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, with an emphasis on the factors influencing her art.