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Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Lawrence Stone Lectures #13) By Lorraine Daston Cover Image
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 By Ritchie Robertson Cover Image
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War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier By Smedley Darlington Butler, Jesse Ventura (Introduction by), David Talbot (Foreword by), Cindy Sheehan (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Smedley Darlington Butler, Jesse Ventura (Introduction by), David Talbot (Foreword by), Cindy Sheehan (Afterword by)
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So, About Modern Europe...: A Conversational History from the Enlightenment to the Present Day By David Imhoof Cover Image
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The Cruelty Is the Point: Why Trump's America Endures By Adam Serwer Cover Image
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The Unseen Hand: An Introduction to the Conspiratorial View of History By A. Ralph Epperson Cover Image
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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World By Robert Kagan Cover Image
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These Truths: A History of the United States By Jill Lepore Cover Image
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World By Mark Miodownik Cover Image
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Pan-Africanism: A History By Hakim Adi Cover Image
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Iran: A Modern History By Abbas Amanat Cover Image
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The Odd Fellows' Primer By Michael Greenzeiger, Ainslie Heilich (Illustrator), Scott Moye (Editor) Cover Image
By Michael Greenzeiger, Ainslie Heilich (Illustrator), Scott Moye (Editor)
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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.