The Tile Club and The Aesthetic Movement in America

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Hardcover. VG/VG (May have few marks from former owners; otherwise clean). Black boards. Blue & decorated dj. 112 pp. Numerous color & bw plates. Issued in conjunction with 1999-2000 exhibitions. With essays by Mary Ann Apicella and Linda Henefield Skalet. "The Tile Club ... included such important forces in the arts as Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, John H. Twachtman, Elihu Vedder, Julian Alden Weir, Edwin Austin Abbey, Arthur B. Frost, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Stanford White. Although the club was in existence for only ten years, it exerted a powerful influence on the development of the art and culture (truncated) of late-nineteenth-century America." (dj) Nicely illustrated. (Inventory #: 17881)