Intruder into Eden: The Train in the Nineteenth-century American Landscape
Softcover
1999 · New York
by Maddox, Kenneth Wesley
New York: Columbia University, 1999. Softcover. VG (No illus. from original were photocopied.). Dissertation, copied from microfilm by UMI, 419 pp. spiral bound; no illus, Dissertation, "concerned with the philosophical and aesthetic implications of the appearance of the train in the eastern landscapes of the mid-nineteenth-century American artist." (abstract) After addressing the topic in more general terms, Maddox devotes separate chapters to four specific works: "River in the Catskills" by Thomas Cole; "Progress" by Asher B. Durand, "Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania," by Jasper F. Crospey, and "The Lackawanna Valley," by George Inness. Maddox went on to become an expert on the collected works of Jasper F. Crospey. (Inventory #: 140743)