This beautiful and informative volume, inspired by the evocative paintings of the "New York Impressionists," offers a new way of looking at the sights and social history of a much-loved city. A few of these images are well-known, but most are not; here they are brought together for the first time in the context of social and economic history. Each painting is placed in contemporary context with related images, from period maps and postcards to newspapers and railway tickets, as well as narrative on New York in the early twentieth century.

The four artists represented in this volume are Frederick Childe Hassam, William Louis Sonntag Jr., William Merritt Chase, and Colin Campbell Cooper. Well-respected in their own age, all four artists fell out of vogue after the First World War. Fortunately for such enduring talent, they have recently been rediscovered, and we can now appreciate their depictions of New York in the early years of the twentieth century.

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With 60 paintings by Frederick Childe Hassam,
William Louis Sonntag Jr., William Merritt Chase

and Colin Campbell Cooper

Written by Francis Morrone

Worth Press Ltd, July 2008

270mm x 245mm

176 pages in full colour

£14.99

ISBN  978 1 903025 48 2