All Stories

  1. Accounting for the Panoramic in Hudson River School Landscape Painting (2007)
  2. Rethinking ‘Luminism’: Taste, Class, and Aestheticising Tendencies in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting (2011)
  3. Thomas Cole’s River in the Catskills as Antipastoral (2002)
  4. Patronage: The Hudson River School of Landscape Painting (2023)
  5. Introduction to Part 4
  6. Coming to Terms with Saint-Gaudens: Patronage, Class, Ideology, Myth (2005)
  7. Grant Wood: The Insider as Outsider (1991)
  8. Exhibition Review: Rockwell Kent (1979)
  9. Philip Evergood: Universal Connotations (2022)
  10. Introduction to Part 5
  11. Meyer Schapiro’s Essay on Style: Falling into the Void (1997)
  12. Thomas Cole: Landscape and the Course of American Empire (1994)
  13. The Birth of the American Art Museum (2010)
  14. Introduction to Part 3
  15. The Unethical Art Museum (2006)
  16. Private Property versus the Public Interest: Asher B. Durand’s Kindred Spirits Leaves the New York Public Library (2008)
  17. Making a Picture of the View from Mount Holyoke (1993)
  18. Preliminary Material
  19. On the Social History of American Art (2015)
  20. Oliver Larkin’s Art and Life in America: Between the Popular Front and the Cold War (2001)
  21. Bully Pulpit: Whither Connoisseurship? (2015)
  22. Bully Pulpit: On Patriotism and the Study of U.S. Art (2017)
  23. ‘A Distasteful, Indelicate Subject’ (2019)
  24. Coda
  25. Capitalism and the History of United States Art (2023)
  26. Introduction to Part 2
  27. Rereading an anti-catalog: Radical Art History and the Decline of the Left (1998)
  28. Trouble in Paradise (1977)
  29. Introduction to Part 1
  30. John Wilmerding’s American Art (1977)
  31. ‘Norman Rockwell’ at the Guggenheim (2003)
  32. Introduction
  33. How imagery and architecture reinforce one another.