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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania By Erik Larson Cover Image
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I By Lindsey Fitzharris Cover Image
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series By Barbara W. Tuchman Cover Image
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Rites Of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age By Modris Eksteins, Professor Cover Image
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Testament of Youth By Vera Brittain, Mark Bostridge (Introduction by), Shirley Williams (Preface by) Cover Image
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Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History By Catharine Arnold Cover Image
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Undertones of War By Edmund Blunden Cover Image
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Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew By Max Egremont Cover Image
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War Posters: The Historical Role of Wartime Poster Art 1914-1919 By Martin Hardie, Arthur K. Sabin Cover Image
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Tunnelling to Freedom: And Other Escape Narratives from World War I By Hugh Durnford, J. R. Ackerley Cover Image
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis By Adam Hochschild 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.