Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867-New York 1948

Describes the dramatic transformation in American art, which began with the Paris Salon of 1867, as a vast group of American artists settled in Paris, the art capital of the period, to study with the great French painters, and continued through the twentieth century as the finest French artists began to leave Paris for New York, the new cultural capital of the world. 20,000 first printing.