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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation By Nuar Alsadir Cover Image
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Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label By Sun Ra, Irwin Chusid (Editor), Chris Reisman (Editor) Cover Image
By Sun Ra, Irwin Chusid (Editor), Chris Reisman (Editor)
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The Marina Abramovic Method: Instruction Cards to Reboot Your Life By Marina Abramovic Cover Image
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An Actor Prepares By Constantin Stanislavsky, Konstantin Stanislavski Cover Image
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Designing Broadway: How Derek McLane and Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre By Derek McLane, Eila Mell, Ethan Hawke (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Derek McLane, Eila Mell, Ethan Hawke (Foreword by)
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Colder Than Here (Oberon Modern Plays) By Laura Wade Cover Image
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Shibari Suspensions: A Step by Step Guide By Gestalta Cover Image
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How to Host a Viking Funeral: The Case for Burning Your Regrets, Chasing Your Crazy Ideas, and Becoming the Person You're Meant to Be By Kyle Scheele Cover Image
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Dance Vision: Dance Through the Eyes of Today’s Artists By Joshua Teal Cover Image
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Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock: An Inside Look at the Hit Musical By Irene Sankoff, David Hein, Laurence Maslon (With) Cover Image
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Handle the Horrible: Change. Triage. Joy. By Chasta Hamilton Cover Image
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Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal By Milford Graves (Artist), Mark Christman (Introduction by), John Corbett (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Cover Image
By Milford Graves (Artist), Mark Christman (Introduction by), John Corbett (Text by (Art/Photo Books))
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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.