Evans, Dorinda — Benjamin West and His American Students

Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. Softcover. Stiff cream & color illus. wraps. 203 pp. 8 color, 148 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with several 1981 exhibitions examining these relationships surrounding American scene painter Benjamin West (1738-1820). With essays by Dorinda Evans. Examines the influences on and works of Matthew Pratt, Abraham Delanoy, Charles Willson Peale, Joseph Wright, Gilbert Stuart and Ralph Earl (first generation); John Trumbull, Mather Brown, Ralph Lamar West, Thomas Spence Duche, William Dunlap, George William West, Henry Dargent and Robert Fulton (second generation); and ten additional third generation artists (Allston, Remb. Peale, Tuthill, Malbone, C.B. King, Sully, Waldo, Morse, Leslie and Newton). Includes bibliography. A very nice catalogue. VG .