American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II

by Robert Wilson Torchia, Deborah Chotner (Contributor), Ellen G. Miles (Contributor)

More than one hundred works are catalogued in the second of two volumes devoted to the National Gallery of Art's holdings of nineteenth-century American paintings, including virtually all of the important portraits in the collection. Distinguished in part by the concentration of works by three preeminent artists, Thomas Sully, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler, this collection also includes John Quidor's The Return of Rip van Winkle , Albert Pinkham Ryder's Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens , and Rembrandt Peale's Rubens Peale with a Geranium . The author has skillfully untangled the misattributions, misidentifications, and inaccurate provenances surrounding many of the paintings.

368 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Myles]

This is from the other volume, but I just want to say that Childe Hassam is underrated, and somehow, so is Whistler.