American master drawings and watercolors: a history of works on paper from colonial times to the present

Contents

The beginnings: early colonial draftsmen -- The Revolutionary period, 1755-1780: drawing flourishes -- Neoclassic drawings: the figure and the land -- Romanticism and the early nineteenth century -- Folk and country drawings -- Drawings of the Hudson River school -- The Victorian watercolor, 1820-1880 -- Figure drawings of the nineteenth century -- The impact of Impressionism -- Illustration and fantasy at the turn of the century -- Twentieth-century Realism -- Toward the modern era -- Drawings of the war years: linear emotion -- Drawing today: many directions.