American genre painting flourished in the thirty years before the Civil War, a period of rapid social change that followed the election of President Andrew Jack

This book examines the portrayal of themes of boundary crossing, itinerancy, relocation, and displacement in US genre paintings during the second half of the lo

Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and w

The catalogue for an exhibit organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions and scheduled for several locations during 1995 and 1996. The period under considerat

"Explores history painting in the United States during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, as exemplified by Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the