American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Volume 1: Painters Born by 1815)

ix, 292 pp. The catalogue contains detailed discussions of more than 700 American paintings by about 275 artists in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Besides biographical data on the artists and factual information on the pictures, there is included a good deal of contemporary documentation--from books, newspapers, and letters--illuminating the milieu of the artists and their work. The arrangement is chronological, by birth date of the painters...--jacket