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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution By Toby Green Cover Image
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier By Ishmael Beah Cover Image
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals By David Hackett Fischer Cover Image
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning By Ben Raines Cover Image
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning By Ben Raines Cover Image
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Hebrewisms of West Africa By Joseph J. Williams, Lushena Books (Other) Cover Image
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Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle By Thomas Sankara Cover Image
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts By Joshua Hammer Cover Image
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route By Saidiya Hartman Cover Image
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Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition: The Women Warriors of Dahomey By Stanley B. Alpern Cover Image
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The Kebra Nagast: King Solomon, The Queen of Sheba & Her Only Son Menyelek - Ethiopian Legends and Bible Folklore By E. a. Wallis Budge Cover Image
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We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 By Thomas Sankara Cover Image
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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.