Eastman Johnson: Painting America

New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 29, 1999 to February 6, 2000; San Diego Museum of Art, February 26 to May 21, 2000; and Seattle Art Museum, June 8 to September 10, 2000. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Published in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum of Art, this volume accompanies the first major retrospective of 19th-century American painter Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) in more than 25 years. 210 illustrations, 110 in color." - Publisher. CONTENTS: From crayon to brush: the education of Eastman Johnson, 1840-1858, by Teresa A. Carbone; Genius of the hour: Eastman Johnson in New York, 1860-1880, by Teresa S. Carbone; Painting race: Eastman Johnson's pictures of slaves, ex-slaves, and freedmen, by Patricia Hills; Home-loving sentiments: domestic contexts for Eastmen Johnson's paintings, by Jane Weiss; In whose shadow? Eastman Johnson and Winslow Homer in the postwar decades, by Sarah Burns; Eastman Johnson and the culture of American individualism, by Anne C. Rose.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.