History of American Painting, Vol. 1: First Flowers of Our Wilderness: The Colonial Period

History of American Painting #1

by James Thomas Flexner

book

369 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

James Thomas Flexner was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award in Biography and a special Pulitzer Prize. A cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Flexner worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune from 1929 until 1931, after which he worked as an executive secretary for the New York City Department of Health before leaving the job the following year in order to devote his full energies to writing.

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

The art information is terrible out of date but the rhapsody of lanuage make the blood rise.