Making American Taste

Barbara Dayer Gallati is curator emerita of American Art, Brooklyn Museum. She is the author of Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children (2004) and a coauthor of Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape (2007).Linda S. Ferber is vice president and senior art historian of the Museum at the New-York Historical Society. She was formerly Andrew W. Mellon Curator and chair of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she organized and coauthored Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape (2007). She is the author of Pastoral Interlude: William T. Richards in Chester County (2001) and Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement (1998), with Barbara Dayer Gallati.Ella M. Foshay is an independent art historian. When curator of paintings and sculpture at the New-York Historical Society, she produced the catalog Mr. Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: A Pioneer Collection of American Art (1990) for an exhibition that re-created Reed's private art gallery as it would have looked in his house in 1835. She is author of, with Barbara Novak, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, and William Cullen Bryant (2000).Kimberly Orcutt is curator of American art at the New-York Historical Society, where she organized the exhibition John Rogers: American Stories. She served as assistant curator of American art at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum and curated the exhibition Painterly Controversy: William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri at the Bruce Museum. She is chair emerita of the Association of Historians of American Art.

A beautifully illustrated survey of what was "American” about 19th century American art

Foreword by Louise MirrerPreface and Acknowledgments by Linda S. FerberNote to the ReaderTaste, Art, and Cultural Power in Nineteenth-Century America by Barbara Dayer Gallati"Nature's Nation": American Taste and Landscape Painting, 1825-1876 by Linda S. FerberLuman Reed and Robert L. Stuart: A Double Portrait by Ella M. FoshayArtists' Biographies and Catalogue Entries by Barbara Dayer Gallati and Kimberly Orcutt