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Making sense of America / Neil Harris
Mapping a national identity : American painting before the Civil War / Barbara Gallati
Democratic illusionism / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.
"Claiming our property wherever we find it" : American art after 1865 / Erica E. Hirshler
The colonial period and early republic
Opening up the land
The wilderness as a source of American identity
The myth of the west
The Civil War and the Brown Decades
Man and nature in the work of Winslow Homer
The fascination of the empirical
Materiality and illusion
On the inner unity of the world
Modern life
The cosmopolitans
In the gorges of the city
Nineteenth-century collections of American paintings / Franklin Kelly
Constructing a past : nineteenth-century histories of American art / Linda S. Ferber
"A big Anglo-Saxon total" : American and British painting, 1670-1890 / Marc Simpson
"When to-day we look for 'American art' we find it mainly in Paris" : the training of American painters in France and the influence of French art on American painting / H. Barbara Weinberg
Between influence and independence : the relationship of American and German painters in the nineteenth century / Martina Sitt
Italy : images and ideas / Charles C. Eldredge
"An exhaustless store for the imagination to feed upon" : reflections on American art and photography / Maria Antonella Pelizzari.
Mapping a national identity : American painting before the Civil War / Barbara Gallati
Democratic illusionism / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.
"Claiming our property wherever we find it" : American art after 1865 / Erica E. Hirshler
The colonial period and early republic
Opening up the land
The wilderness as a source of American identity
The myth of the west
The Civil War and the Brown Decades
Man and nature in the work of Winslow Homer
The fascination of the empirical
Materiality and illusion
On the inner unity of the world
Modern life
The cosmopolitans
In the gorges of the city
Nineteenth-century collections of American paintings / Franklin Kelly
Constructing a past : nineteenth-century histories of American art / Linda S. Ferber
"A big Anglo-Saxon total" : American and British painting, 1670-1890 / Marc Simpson
"When to-day we look for 'American art' we find it mainly in Paris" : the training of American painters in France and the influence of French art on American painting / H. Barbara Weinberg
Between influence and independence : the relationship of American and German painters in the nineteenth century / Martina Sitt
Italy : images and ideas / Charles C. Eldredge
"An exhaustless store for the imagination to feed upon" : reflections on American art and photography / Maria Antonella Pelizzari.