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Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II By Douglas A. Blackmon Cover Image
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Anarchism and Other Essays (Dover Books on History) By Emma Goldman Cover Image
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The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates By Ralph Ketcham, Ralph Ketcham (Introduction by) Cover Image
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The Revolt of the Masses By José Ortega y Gasset Cover Image
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No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism By Daniel Guerin (Editor), Paul Sharkey (Translator) Cover Image
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The Decline of the West By Oswald Spengler Cover Image
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The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening By Ari Shapiro Cover Image
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Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History By Jeff Nussbaum Cover Image
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Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items By J. W. Ocker Cover Image
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The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant By Henry a. Kissinger Cover Image
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El infinito en un junco / Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World By Irene Vallejo Cover Image
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Every Goddamn Day: A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago By Neil Steinberg 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.