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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern By Stephen Greenblatt Cover Image
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The Dance of Death By Hans Holbein, Ulinka Rublack (Commentaries by) Cover Image
By Hans Holbein, Ulinka Rublack (Commentaries by)
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Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West (Picturing History Series) By Lisa Jardine, Jerry Brotton Cover Image
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Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance By Joseph Luzzi Cover Image
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Blood, Fire & Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici By Estelle Paranque Cover Image
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When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe By Maureen Quilligan Cover Image
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Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo By Stephanie Storey Cover Image
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The Prince (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) By Niccolò Machiavelli Cover Image
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The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World By Paul Strathern Cover Image
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The Prince By Niccolò Machiavelli Cover Image
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The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom By Nancy Goldstone Cover Image
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The Voynich Manuscript By Raymond Clemens (Editor), Deborah E. Harkness (Introduction by) 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.