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Art of the United States

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.

Adams, Robert. Sea Stories. Exh. cat. Robert Adams: The Places We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011. 124 pp.; 106 ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300180046)

Adams, Robert. This Day: Photographs from Twenty-Five Years, The Northwest Coast. Exh. cat. Robert Adams: The Places We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011. 106 pp.; 68 ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300180053)

Albrecht, Donald, and Thomas Mellins. The American Style: The Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis. Exh. cat. New York: Monacelli Press, 2011. 224 pp.; 180 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9791580932851)

Allen, Terry. Jim Roche: Glory Roads. Exh. cat. Tallahassee and Seattle: Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts in association with University of Washington Press, 2012. 88 pp.; 173 ills. Paper $22.50 (9781889282237)

Arnold, Sara C., and Stephen G. Hoffius, eds. The Life and Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston. Exh. cat. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. 224 pp.; 96 color ills.; 231 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9781611170412)

Auther, Elissa, and Adam Lerner, eds. West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977. Exh. cat. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 448 pp.; 92 color ills. Paper $39.95 (9780816677269 )

Barratt, Carrie Rebora, Lance Mayer, Gay Myers, Eli Wilner, and Suzanne Smeaton. Washington Crossing the Delaware: Restoring an American Masterpiece. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. 48 pp.; 55 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Paper $14.95 (9780300176421)

Barter, Judith A., ed. The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012. 160 pp.; 117 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300175745)

Bischof, Libby, and Susan Danly. Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900–1940. Exh. cat. Portland, ME: Portland Museum of Art, 2011. 184 pp.; 93 color ills.; 3 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300169485)

Boas, Nancy. David Park: A Painter's Life. A Simpson Book in the Humanities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 368 pp.; 41 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780520268418)

Colbert, Charles. Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art. Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780812243253 )

Coleman, Loring W. Loring W. Coleman: Living and Painting in a Changing New England, An Autobiography. Ed. Hugh Fortmiller. Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press Editions, 2012. 240 pp.; 115 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781555953416)

Coyle, Heather Campbell, ed. Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 192 pp.; 129 color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780977164431)

Danto, Ginger. The Art of George Rodrigue. New York: Abrams, 2012. 256 pp.; 265 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9781419703171)

Davis, Keith F., and Jane L. Aspinwall. Timothy H. O'Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs. Exh. cat. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2011. 260 pp.; 345 ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300179842)

de Grandis, Oddo, Stefania Fabri, and Maria Ida Gaeta, eds. America Illustrata. Exh. cat. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2006. 272 pp.; 230 color ills. Paper (9788849200188)

Eckhardt, Joseph P. So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego. Exh. cat. Doylestown, PA: James A. Michener Art Museum, 2011. 208 pp.; 76 color ills.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9781879636309)

Ewers, John C. Plains Indian Art: The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers. Ed. Jane Ewers Robinson. Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photoraphy of the American West, vol. 8. University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. 224 pp.; 41 color ills.; 99 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780806130613)

Falino, Jeannine, and Jennifer Scanlan, eds. Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Arts and Design, 2011. 368 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (0810984806)

Fields, Jill, ed. Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists. New Directions in American History. New York: Routledge, 2011. 345 pp.; 38 ills. Paper $42.95 (9780415887694)

Fleming, Geoffrey K., and Ruth Ann Bramson. Charles Henry Miller, N.A.: Painter of Long Island. Southold, NY: Southold Historical Society, 2012. 200 pp.; 140 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (9781555953430)

Francis, Jacqueline. Making Race: Modernism and "Racial Art" in America. A McLellan Book. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. 256 pp.; 12 color ills.; 47 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780295991450)

Hull, Roger. Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life. Exh. cat. Salem, OR: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 2011. 136 pp.; 112 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9781930957633)

Johns, Barbara. Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita. The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2011. 272 pp.; 40 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780295991009)

Junker, Patricia. Albert Bierstadt: Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast. Exh. cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2011. 72 pp.; 52 color ills. Paper $19.95 (9780295991245)

Katcher, Jane, David A. Schorsch, and Ruth Wolfe, eds. Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume II. Seattle, WA: Marquand Books, 2011. 452 pp.; 417 color ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780300175806)

Kenny, Peter M., Michael K. Brown, Frances F. Bretter, and Matthew A. Thurlow. Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. 312 pp.; 350 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300155112)

Kinkel, Marianne. Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 292 pp.; 1 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780252036248)

Lambert, Ted. Ted Lambert: The Man Behind the Paintings. Ed. Lew Freedman. Fairbanks, AK and Chicago: University of Alaska Press in association with University of Chicago Press, 2012. 207 pp.; 8 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9781602231658)

Lauria, Jo, and Jake Seniuk. Anne Hirondelle: Ceramic Art. Thomas T. Wilson Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. 88 pp.; 73 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780295991511)

Lee Clark, Robin. Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface. Exh. cat. San Diego and Berkeley: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and University of California Press, 2011. 240 pp.; 100 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780520270602)

Lehmbeck, Leah, ed. Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California. Exh. cat. Pasadena, CA and Los Angeles: Norton Simon Museum and Getty Publications, 2011. 256 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781606060933)

Lewallen, Constance M., and Karen Moss. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970. Exh. cat. Berkeley and Newport Beach, CA: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Orange County Museum of Art, 2011. 296 pp.; 64 color ills.; 123 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780520270619)

Lincoln, Louise, ed. Re: Chicago. Exh. cat. Chicago: DePaul Art Museum, 2012. 86 pp.; 41 color ills. Paper $30.00 (9780978907433)

Little, Carl. Eric Hopkins: Above and Beyond. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2011. 136 pp.; 100 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780892729555)

Marley, Anna O., ed. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit. A George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies. Berkeley and Philadelphia: University of California Press and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2012. 304 pp.; 106 color ills.; 107 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780520270756)

Matilsky, Barbara. Lesley Dill's Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan. Exh. cat. Bellingham, WA: Whatcom Museum, 2011. 48 pp.; 30 color ills. Paper $20.00 (9780295991566)

Mauro, Hayes Peter. The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. 184 pp.; 99 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780826349200)

May, Jill P., and Robert E. May. Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 288 pp.; 8 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780252036262)

Mayer, Lance, and Gay Myers. American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 260 pp.; 19 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781606060773)

Mazow, Leo G., and Kevin M. Murphy. Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art. Exh. cat. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2011. 80 pp.; 58 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780911209686)

Mazow, Leo G. Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 216 pp.; 44 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Cloth $79.95 (9780271050836)

Miller, Dana, ed. Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011. 388 pp.; 392 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300171082)

Montgomery, Susan J. In the Moment: The Life and Art of Schomer Lichtner. West Bend: Museum of Wisconsin Art, 2011. 216 pp.; 350 ills. Paper $29.95 (9780978601928)

Moon, Michael. Darger's Resources. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 176 pp.; 5 color ills.; 3 b/w ills. Paper $22.95 (9780822351566)

Naef, Weston, and Christine Hult-Lewis. Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. 608 pp.; 1 ills. Cloth $195.00 (9781606060056)

Nemerov, Alexander. To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2011. 152 pp.; 63 color ills.; 24 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300172393)

Peabody, Rebecca, Andrew Perchuk, Glenn Phillips, Rani Singh, and Lucy Bradnock, eds. Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945–1980. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011. 352 pp.; 218 color ills.; 160 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (9781606060728)

Perry, Claire. The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2011. 256 pp.; 74 color ills.; 53 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780979067891)

Roblin, Kimberly, Amanda Lett, Eric Singleton, and Randy Ramer. Forging a Nation: The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum. Exh. cat. Tulsa, OK: Gilcrease Museum, 2011. 250 pp.; 300 ills. Paper $24.95 (9780972565783)

Romo, Terezita. Malaquias Montoya. A Ver: Revisioning Art History, vol. 6. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2011. 200 pp.; 95 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780895511072)

Rothkopf, Scott. Glenn Ligon: America. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011. 304 pp.; 196 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300168471)

Schuyler, David. Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. 240 pp.; 47 ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780801450808)

Sheehan, Tanya. Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. 216 pp.; 44 b/w ills. Cloth $74.95 (9780271037929)

Shiff, Richard. Between Sense and de Kooning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 256 pp.; 100 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $49.00 (9781861898531)

Simpson, Pamela H. Corn Palaces and Butter Queens: A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 264 pp.; 12 color ills.; 99 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780816676200)

Strekow, Alan J. Cyril Colnik: Man of Iron. Milwaukee, WI: Friends of the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, 2011. 200 pp.; 269 color ills.; 77 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780615481418)

Thomas Perich, Shannon. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital. National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Institute Scholarly Press, 2011. 176 pp.; 150 ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781588342744)

Wagner, Anne Middleton. A House Divided: American Art since 1955. An Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 304 pp. Paper $34.95 (9780520270978)

Wang, ShiPu. Becoming American? The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2011. 208 pp.; 38 ills. Cloth $56.00 (9780824834180)

Wardle, Marian, ed. The Weir Family, 1820–1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art. Exh. cat. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2011. 212 pp.; 76 color ills.; 96 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9781611680218)

Wolff, Justin. Thomas Hart Benton: A Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 416 pp.; 16 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780374199876)

Zeitlan, Marilyn A., ed. Barbara Rogers: The Imperative of Beauty. Manchester, NH: Hudson Hills Press, 2012. 224 pp.; 150 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781555953478)