Milley, John [edited by] — Papers on American Art

Maple Shade, New Jersey, Edinburgh Press, 1976. Softcover. Red wraps. 188 pp. 62 bw plates. A collection of 9 papers presented at a symposium in Philadelphia during the Bicentennial. Contents: Richard J. Boyle (American Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Was There A National Style?), Peter C. Marzio (The Forms of A Democratic Art: A Field For Research), Louis C. Jones (The Genre In American Folk Art), Lillian B. Miller (The Lovely and The Wild: The Correspondence Between American Literature and Painting Before The Civil War), Frank H. Sommer, III (Thomas Jefferson's First Plan For A Virginia Building), Joshua C. Taylor (The Religious Impulse In American Art), Sinclair Hitchings (Learning To Be An Artist), Charles Coleman Sellers (Reading History In Portraiture and Edgar P. Richardson (The End and The Beginning: Art on The Eve of The Revolution). Each essay is illustrated. VG .