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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America By Erik Larson Cover Image
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City By Matthew Desmond Cover Image
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals By Saidiya Hartman Cover Image
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Essential Mike Davis) By Mike Davis, Robert Morrow (Photographs by) Cover Image
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles By Gary Krist Cover Image
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The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities By Peter S. Alagona Cover Image
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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation By Edward Glaeser, David Cutler Cover Image
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All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence By Fox Butterfield Cover Image
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Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) By Jane Jacobs Cover Image
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The Shame of the Cities By Lincoln Steffens Cover Image
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The Rust Belt Rising Almanac By Linda Gallant (Editor), Nicolas Esposito (Editor) 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.