Critical Issues In American Art

* Coming of Age: Historical Scholarship in American Art Wanda M. Corn. * Reading Eighteenth-Century American Family Portraits: Social Images and Self-Images Margaretta M. Lovell. * Ariadne and the Indians: Vanderlyns Neoclassical Princess, Racial Seduction, and the Melodrama of Abandonment David M. Lubin. * Thomas Cole and Jacksonian America: The Course of Empire as Political Allegory Angela Miller. * George Caleb Binghams The County Election: Whig Tribute to the Will of the People Gail E. Husch. * Two Sculptures for the Capitol: Horatio Greenoughs Rescue and Luigi Persicos Discovery of America Vivien Green Fryd. * American Folk Art: Questions and Quandaries John Michael Vlach. * New Mexican Santos and the Preservation of Religious Traditions William Wroth. * Albums of War: On Reading Civil War Photographs Alan Trachtenberg. * Trapper, Hunter, and Woodsman: Winslow Homers Adirondack Figure David Tatham. * Thomas Eakins and Pure Art Education Elizabeth Johns. * The Earnest, Untiring Worker and the Magician of the Brush: Gender Politics in the Criticism of Cecilia Beaux and John Singer Sargent Sarah Burns. * Lifting the Veil: Henry O. Tanners The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor Judith Wilson. * Columbus and Columbia in Chicago, 1893: Man of Genius Meets Generic Woman Judy Sund. * George Bellows Stag at Sharkeys: Boxing, Violence, and Male Identity Robert E. Haywood. * American Art and National Identity: The 1920s Matthew Baigell. * Who Will Paint New York? The Worlds Art Center and the New York Paintings of Georgia OKeeffe Anna C. Chave. * In My Family of Primitiveness and Tradition: William H. Johnsons Jesus and the Three Marys Richard J. Powell. * Images of American Women in the 1930s: Reginald Marsh and Paramount Picture Erika L. Doss. * Florine Stettheimer: Rococo Subversive Linda Nochlin.