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Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings By Hermann Hesse, Damion Searls (Translated by), Volker Michels (Editor) Cover Image
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Walden and Civil Disobedience By Henry David Thoreau, W. S. Merwin (Introduction by), William Howarth (Afterword by) Cover Image
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss By Margaret Renkl Cover Image
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative By Florence Williams Cover Image
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How I Became a Tree By Sumana Roy Cover Image
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Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South By Margaret Renkl Cover Image
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Walden: Life in the Woods: Life in the Woods By Henry David Thoreau Cover Image
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Mushroom Botanical Art By Toshimitsu Fukiharu, Eugenia Bone (Commentaries by) Cover Image
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The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wilderness By Jon Billman Cover Image
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Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds By Bernd Heinrich Cover Image
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Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World By Asia Suler 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.