Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Oil on Canvas
The American Face [Portraits]
Nature His Only Instructor [John Singleton Copley]
“O Beautiful for Spacious Skies” [Nineteenth-Century Landscapes]
Heade Storms [Martin Johnson Heade]
Epic Homer [Winslow Homer]
The Ache in Eakins [Thomas Eakins]
Whistler in the Dark [James McNeill Whistler]
“Better Than Nature” [Albert Pinkham Ryder]
Walls That Talk too Much [Impressionists and Realists]
Street Arab [Childe Hassam]
Evangel of the Lens [Alfred Stieglitz]
“A Lone Left Thing” [Marsden Hartley]
O Pioneer! [Arthur Dove]
Two Takes on Hopper [Edward Hopper]
Logic Is Beautiful [Elie Nadelman]
Jackson Whole [Jackson Pollock]
Iconic Andy [Andy Warhol]
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