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A landmark publication on American art from 1825 to 1870, this is a significant contribution to our understanding of taste and collecting in America during this period. It presents fifty-five paintings from thirty-eight artists drawn from the New York Historical Society’s newly restored and superb collection of narrative art.

![Angels and Wild Things: The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak [Paperback] Cech, John](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/91YTCMrs8jL._SY385_.jpg)

![In the Courts of Religious Ladies: Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents [Hardcover] Periti, Giancarla](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/71cbGJd7edL._SY342_-1.jpg)
![Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens: Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes [Paperback] Ebbinghaus, Susanne; Anderson, Lisa; Bewer, Francesca G.; Bielfeldt, Ruth; Eremin, Katherine; Hemingway, Seán; Lie, Henry; Mattusch, Carol C.; Riederer, Josef and Staehli, Adrian](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/516k-q2VTKL._SY385_-1.jpg)


![Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film [Paperback] Schmenner, Will and Granof, Corinne](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/81D2s-ypoAL._SY466_-1-300x450.jpg)

![Swedish Wooden Toys (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Des) [Paperback] Ogata, Amy F. and Weber, Susan](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/61pbgkyHjxL._SY385_-1-300x385.jpg)



![For Forever I'll Be Here: The Art of Marci Washington: Selected Works [Hardcover] Marci Washington](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/61-aHfSkpTL._SY466_-1-300x450.jpg)

![Fabulism: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska January 31-April 25, 2004 [Hardcover] Kertess, Klaus](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/91I8y6m65HL._SY385_-1.jpg)
![A Work of Art for Kindred Spirits: Frank Lloyd Wright's Zimmerman House [Paperback] Neil Kurt J. Sundstrom and Hetty Startup Levine](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/71zjZ1EhzVL._SX550_-1-300x408.jpg)
![Heartfelt: Museum of Fine Arts, October 7 - November 20, 2005 [Hardcover] George Blakely; Adam Jolles and D.K. Roberts](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/41XCC09hd1L._SY342_-1.jpg)
![The Kaufmann Collection: The Early Furniture of Gustav Stickley [Hardcover] Thomas K. Maher](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/11qAK05MfkL-1.jpg)
![Book of Theatre Products [Paperback] Theatre Products](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/41AbgX-jm9L._SY342_-1.jpg)
![Minol Araki [Hardcover] Brown, Claudia; Araki, Minol; Barnhart, Richard M.; Owyoung, Steven D.; Kuo Li Li Shih Po Wu Kuan (China) and Phoenix Art Museum](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/91qjbmUAwFL._SY385_-1-300x385.jpg)