Description
This text focuses on American narrative art from 1825 to 1870. A significant contribution to our understanding of taste and collecting during this period, it reasseses themes including the rural and the domestic, as well as a broad range of historical, literary and religious subject matter.


![Challenging Tradition: Women of the Academy, 1826-2003 [Paperback] Dearinger, David B.; Dervaux, Isabelle and National Academy of Design (U. S.)](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/41BcfuhcVL._SY425_-1.jpg)

![Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era [Hardcover] Sharp, Kevin](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/31pYOYf5UXL-1.jpg)
![The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries [Hardcover] de Bunes Ibarra, Miguel Angel & Donald J. La Rocca](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/91SIWYsxV6L._SY425_-1-300x425.jpg)
![The Horse in Ancient Greek Art [Hardcover] Stribling, Nicole; Schertz, Peter; Hemingway, Seán; Mattusch, Carol C.; Oakley, John and Pevnick, Seth](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/81966PCS1hL._SY425_-1-300x425.jpg)


![Georgia's Legacy: History Charted Through the Arts [Paperback] Doezema, Marianne; Smith, Jane Webb; Schneiderman, Richard S. and Spalding, Phinizy](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/81WAIZNWVoL._SY466_-1-300x450.jpg)

![Deigo Rivera Obra Inconcusa [Paperback] Tomas Zurian; Juan Coronel Rivera; Deigo Rivera; Nadia Ulgade Gomez and Rafel Tovar](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/51KFFSF8K2L._SY342_-1.jpg)
![Chip Hooper: New Zealand's South Pacific and Tasman Sea [Paperback] Hooper, Chip](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/31gWM-wwEUL._SY342_-1-300x342.jpg)

![Health for Sale: Posters from the William H. Helfand Collection [Paperback] Helfand, William H.; Ittmann, John and Shoemaker, Innis Howe](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/71ecuuFn-xL._SY385_-1.jpg)
![Book of Theatre Products [Paperback] Theatre Products](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/41AbgX-jm9L._SY342_-1.jpg)
![Andromeda Hotel: The art of Joseph Cornell [Paperback] Lichtenstein, Therese](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/91WwLem6WZL._SY385_-1.jpg)

![After Lewis & Clark: The Forces of Change, 1806-1871 [Hardcover] Hood, Gary Allen](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/81IztefiMoL._SY466_-1-300x450.jpg)
![Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art (Hardback) - Common [Hardcover] Jonathan Weinberg](https://artwheelshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/41R0d2KM5CL._SY385_-1.jpg)