Since its founding at the turn of the century the New Britain Museum of American Art has focused on collecting works by American artists. The finest paintings and sculpture from this important collection are featured in full-color reproductions in this illustrated volume. Included are many outstanding paintings by the foremost representatives of American Impressionism such as Mary Cassatt and Childe Hassam and the famous mural series Arts of Life in America by Thomas Hart Benton. Colonial portraits and genre scenes landscapes of the Hudson River School African-American art from the Harlem Renaissance and masterpieces from various nineteenth-century movements reveal the historical breadth of this collection. Color reproductions of the artworks are accompanied by biographical sketches on the artists and comprehensive essays on each of the works.
