Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America

New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1996. First. Softcover. VG. Color illustarted glossy green glued wraps. [vii] 380 pp, 129 bw images. The story of artists in American society during the critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped the artists and how artists shaped their culture. It focuses on such painters as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Winslow Homer, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. (Inventory #: 164113)