Product Description: In the nineteenth century, it became fashionable for aristocratic and upper-class homeowners in Europe to commission watercolor paintings of their domestic interiors and to collect them in albums. House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection commemorates the recent gift of 85 nineteenth-century watercolor interior drawings--the largest collection of its kind in America--to Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum by Eugene V...read more

A companion volume to the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition of American landscape art highlights two hundred full-color and black-and-white images that capture the extraordinary artistry of Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran, accompanied by five incisive critical essays that look at the role of art in promoting nineteenth-century American scenic wonders. 15,000 first printing.