Get Hold Of History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image, The Native School From Thomas Cole To Winslow Homer Authored By James Thomas Flexner Released As Readable Copy

at the work of George Catlin, genre painters, Frederick Church, the Rocky Mountain School, and native American impressionists Excellent book on the history ofthcentury American art.
Flexner is infectiously enthusiastic about the subject, and has put together a very readable, very informative work,

Sadly, the book has been out of print since the lates originally published inand the pictures at least in mypaperback copy are in black and white.
However, it is easy enough to get a cheap copy used and I'm sure a majority of the pictures are available online in color.
It could also use a little updating, as, for example, Church's Heart of the Andes is no longer "obscured with grime as it hangs unloved on the walls of the Metropolitan Museum".
But the appreciation and criticism contained

herein is still valid, and the book deserves its place on the bookstore shelf,

I do have to feel for poor Flexner he argued first and convincingly that the "Rocky Mountain School" of Bierstadt and Moran should be considered distinct from the "Hudson River School" of Cole and Church, yet the most recent Hudson River School book although a rerelease from thes, sitelinkAmerican Wilderness, has a Bierstadt on the cover.
I guess he lost that argument, 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 fromuntil, 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.
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