Winslow Homer and the Critics Forging a National Art in the 1870s

"The quality and inherent intellectual worth of this book are unquestionable. It is an extraordinary piece of work that does what few previous studies have been able to do: it shows Homer as an active participant in the critical and commercial art world of New York during the fascinating postbellum period. It is particularly good at chronicling the emergence of watercolor as a serious medium. And its survey of the entirety of the New York art press during more than a decade provides future scholars with the wherewithal to conduct previously undreamed of research into the reception of a wide variety of works of arts in the 1870s."--John Davis, Smith College, author ofLandscape of BeliefConrads, Margaret C. is the author of 'Winslow Homer and the Critics Forging a National Art in the 1870s', published 2002 under ISBN 9780691070995 and ISBN 0691070997.