American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I.

New York / Oxford: National Gallery / Oxford University, 1996. Hardcover. NF/VG as new. Brown cloth. Brown dj with color illustration. xvi, 467 pp. 89 color, 143 bw plates. Documents works by some of America's most famous artists, including Homer (7), Eakins (10), Cole (7), Durand (3), Cropsey (3), Kensett (3), Inness (3), and Hassam (3). Profiles 49 artists (A-La) each with biography, notes, bibliography, references, and plates of their work. Also includes a general bibliography (22 pages), an index, and a concordance of new-old accession numbers. A hefty publication.Contents as follows: Pt 1. Francis Alexander -- Ezra Ames -- Joseph Alexander Ames (truncated) -- John James Audobon -- John Woodhouse Audubon -- Frank Weston Benson -- Albert Bierstadt -- Ralph Albert Blakelock -- Emil Carlsen -- Francis Bicknell Carpenter -- John William Casilear -- William Merritt Chase -- Frederic Edwin Church -- Alvan Clark -- Thomas Cole -- Jasper Francis Cropsey -- Joseph Decker -- Thomas Wilmer Dewing -- Thomas Doughty -- Asher Brown Durand -- George Henry Durrie -- Frank Duveneck -- Thomas Eakins -- Francis William Edmonds -- Jacob Eichholtz -- Charles Loring Elliott -- Frederick Carl Frieseke -- James Frothingham -- George Fuller -- Chester Harding -- William Michael Harnett -- William Stanley Haseltine -- Childe Hassam -- Martin Johnson Heade -- George P.A. Healy -- Winslow Homer -- Daniel Huntington -- Charles Ingham -- Henry Inman -- George Inness -- John Wesley Jarvis -- David Johnson -- Eastman Johnson -- Matthew Harris Jouett -- John Frederick Kensett -- John La Farge -- James Reid Lambdin -- Fitz Hugh Lane -- Thomas Bayley Lawson. (Inventory #: 8476)