Twelve American Masterpieces Author:Ira Spanierman Gallery, William H. Gerdts, Elwood C. Parry III, Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Carol Lowrey, H. Nichols B. Clark, Elizabeth Milroy, Ira Spanierman, Lisa N. Peters, Ronald G. Pisano, Bennard B. Perlman, Peter H. Hassrick, Donald Kuspit This handsome hardcover 96-page catalogue with twenty-six color illustrations includes twelve scholarly essays by leading American art historians and extensive documentation on twelve important and rare works of art. The contents consist of an introduction by William H. Gerdts, and essay by Ellwood C. Parry III on Thomas Cole's Sunset on th... more »e Arno (ca. 1838); Erik Ronnberg on Fitz Hugh Lane's A Storm, Breaking Away, Vessel Slipping Her Cable (1880); Carol Lowrey on Sanford Gifford's Autumn in the Catskills (1861); H. Nichols B. Clark on Chauncey B. Ives's Undine Rising from the Water (1880); Elizabeth Milroy on Thomas Eakins's An Arcadian (1883); Ira Spanierman on Theodore Robinson's October Sunlight (Woman Sewing, Giverny) (1891); Lisa N. Peters on John Henry Twachtman's River Scene with Pier (ca.1893); Ronald G. Pisano on William Merritt Chase's Shinnecock Landscape (ca. 1890s); William H. Gerdts on Childe Hassam's Cathedral Spires: Spring Morning (1900); Bennard Perlman on Robert Henri's On the Marne (1899); Peter Hassrick on Frederic Remington's Cheyenne, No.10 (1903); and Donald Kuspit on Willem de Kooning's East Hampton IV (1977). This scholarly catalogue is a significant reference source.« less