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	After Icebergs with a Painter AFTER ICEBERGS WITH A PAINTER A Summer Voyage to Labrador and around Newfoundland by Louis Legrand Noble Introduction by William L. Coleman 256 full-color pages 6″ x 9″ trade paperback 44 illustrations — more than 40 paintings and sketches ISBN: 9798985692129, Price: $19.95 A New Edition of the Classic Account of an Artist’s 1859 Arctic Adventure “After Icebergs with a Painter is an eloquent travelogue and brilliant piece of marketing orchestrated by one of America’s leading artists, Frederic Church. This long-overdue reprint expands on Noble’s evocative prose by incorporating...	$19.95 Add:
	AMERICAN WILDERNESS AMERICAN WILDERNESS: The Story of the Hudson River School of Painting by Barbara Babcock Millhouse foreword by Kevin Avery, Associate Curator, Dept. of American Paintings & Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The story of the 19th-century American artists who took the raw material of America’s scenic wilderness and transformed it into a new style of landscape painting. Should be read by anyone interested in its subject. Kevin J. Avery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art More than 40 full-color reproductions of some of their greatest paintings illustrate this historical overview...	$29.95 Add:
	Cover Treasure: The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong COVER TREASURE The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong by Lowell Thing 456 full-color pages 8 ½ x 11, printed casebound ISBN: 978-1-883789-99-2, Price: $75.00 A VISUAL FEAST • Over 700 color images • Includes every known cover design • The ultimate Margaret Armstrong reference “The book is stunning.” Holly Phillips, Collections Manager, Acquisitions, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Cover Treasure provides a thorough overview of Armstrong and her milieu, richly illustrated by excellent images of Armstrong's book covers and numerous historic photographs.”...	$75.00 Add:
	Elverhoj: The Arts and Crafts Colony at Milton-on-Hudson Elverhoj The Arts and Crafts Colony at Milton-on-Hudson by William B. Rhoads and Leslie Melvin 232 full-color pages, 8″ x 10″ trade paperback 168 illustrations: 86 B&W, 82 color ISBN: 9798985692105, Price: $35.00 Elverhoj (Danish for “hill of the fairies,” pronounced “El-ver-hoy”) was an Arts and Crafts colony established on the picturesque west shore of the Hudson River in 1912 by Danish American artists and craftsmen led by Anders Anderson. Little known today, the colony achieved a national reputation before World War I and earned a gold medal at the 1915 Panama-Pacific...	$35.00 Add:
	Frederic Church's Olana Frederic Church’s Olana Architecture and Landscape as Art by James Anthony Ryan introduction by Franklin Kelly paperback, 8 ½ x 11, 104 pages, 74 photographs (31 full-color), isbn 9781883789282, $19.95. “Almost an hour this side of Albany is the Center of the World—I own it.”----Frederic Edwin Church in a letter to Erastus Palmer, 7 July 1869. (The collection of the Albany Institute of History & Art) Olana, the Persian-style house and romantically-designed grounds built high on a hilltop just south of the city of Hudson by Hudson River School painter...	$19.95 Add:
	In Blue Mountains In Blue Mountains: An Artist’s Return to America’s First Wilderness by Thomas Locker, illustrated by Thomas Locker Hardcover, 11″ x 9″, 36 pages, 13 full-color reproductions ISBN: 978-0880104715 $18.00 “This special book is visually rich, quietly moving, and intensely personal—a multilayered experience.” School Library Journal Set in America’s “first wilderness”—Kaaterskill Clove in the Catskill Mountains—made world-famous by the 19th-century Hudson River School...	$18.00 ... more info
	Jervis McEntee Jervis McEntee: Kingston’s Artist of the Hudson River School by The Friends of Historic Kingston featuring essays by Lowell Thing and Dr. William B. Rhoads trade paper, 10 ½″ x 8 ½ ″, 64 pages, 62 illustrations with 26 full-color paintings $18.50 , isbn 9781883789817 published by Black Dome Press Corp. with The Friends of Historic Kingston The Hudson River School , America’s first major art movement, is so well known and its artists—Thomas Cole, Frederic Church and Albert Bierstadt, among others—so widely exhibited that it seems...	$9.95 Add:
	KAATERSKILL CLOVE KAATERSKILL CLOVE: Where Nature Met Art by Greene County Historian Raymond Beecher Foreword by Evelyn Trebilcock, curator of Olana State Historic Site Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art features little-known lore and a wealth of rare images of the scenic domain that inspired America’s greatest 19th-century landscape painters and spawned the first mountain resort hotels in America. In the 1800s Kaaterskill Clove was a mandatory stop on the American Grand Tour and as famous and familiar to world travelers as Niagara Falls , Yellowstone Park or the Grand Canyon are today. Chapters...	$24.95 Add:
	The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand John Durand introduction by Linda S. Ferber, vice president and museum director for the New York Historical Society A highly enjoyable reading experience for historian and non-specialist alike. Linda S. Ferber vice president and museum director for the New–York Historical Society Asher B. Durand (1796–1886) once overheard the great painter John Trumbull advise a young artist, You had better learn to make shoes or dig potatoes than to become a painter in this country. Fortunately for American art, Asher Durand did not heed that advice....	$17.95 Add: