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Gombrich on the Renaissance Volume III: The Heritage of Apelles By Leonie Gombrich Cover Image
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Carnal Knowledge: Towards a 'New Materialism' Through The Arts By Barbara Bolt (Editor), Estelle Barrett (Editor) Cover Image
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Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World (Thinking from Elsewhere) By Cheryl Mattingly (Editor), Lone Grøn (Editor), Lisa Stevenson (Foreword by) Cover Image
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Felt: Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama By Chris Thompson Cover Image
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Deep Affinities: Art and Science By Philip F. Palmedo Cover Image
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Where Silence Reigns By Rainer Maria Rilke, G. Craig Houston (Translated by) Cover Image
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Kitsch and Art By Thomas Kulka Cover Image
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Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward a Critical Historiography By Benjamin Anderson (Editor), Mirela Ivanova (Editor) Cover Image
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The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss By Richard Shone, John-Paul Stonard Cover Image
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European Art and the Wider World 1350-1550 (Art and Its Global Histories #1) By Kathleen Christian (Editor), Leah Clark (Editor) Cover Image
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Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control By Derek Conrad Murray Cover Image
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The Principles of Art By R. G. Collingwood Cover Image
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Situated on the main street of the historic Delaware Riverfront town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, Farley’s Bookshop and its knowledgeable, experienced staff have endeavored to satisfy the literary tastes of the area inhabitants for over fifty years. Whether you are Bucks County born-and-bred or just stopping by to enjoy the crisp river air and delightful scenery, you will be pleasantly surprised to find the largest and most diverse collection of books-in-print in Bucks County. Farley’s may have competition, but it has few peers. We encourage you to browse our website, but please remember that getting acquainted with our online persona is no substitute for exploring the narrow passageways and teeming shelves of our storefront and discovering that perfect book nestled amongst so many others.

New Hope for American Art

                                               New Hope for American Art is the most comprehensive book ever published on artists from, and surrounding, the New Hope Art Colony (also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists). This book, with its 612 pages and over 1,000 color plates of artwork include biographies of 165 individual Pennsylvania Impressionists and New Hope Modernists as well as artists from the Philadelphia Ten, a pioneering group of women all educated at Philadelphia art schools. 

In this book, you'll find biographies and artwork from such artists as:

  • Daniel Garber
  • Edward Redfield
  • George Sotter
  • Arthur Meltzer
  • Robert Spencer
  • William Langson Lathrop
  • Kenneth Nunamaker
  • John Folinsbee
  • Henry Snell
  • William F. Taylor
  • Fern Coppedge
  • M. Elizabeth Price
  • Clarence Johnson
  • S. George Phillips
  • Rae Sloan Bredin
  • Walter Baum
  • Walter Schofield
  • Morgan Colt
  • Charles Rosen
  • Joseph Meierhans
  • Charles F. Ramsey
  • Louis Stone
  • Charles Evans
  • Josef Zenk

New Hope for American Art was authored, designed and published by James M. Alterman, an expert in the field of Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist painting. A longtime collector and owner of two fine art galleries, Alterman wanted to create a user-friendly book intended not only to educate collectors and enthusiasts about this art but to help train one's eye. The book offers valuable tips on how to avoid common mistakes often experienced by new collectors drawn from the author's personal experiences as a collector and fine art dealer.