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About This Book..., January 26, 2010
This review is from: Art on Nantucket: The History of Painting on Nantucket Island (Hardcover)
The 1982 hardback is a limited edition of 2,000 hand-numbered copies.
Blue linen over hardback boards with an inset portrait. In dustjacket. Sewn binding. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. 269 pp. Bibliography and End Notes. 4 indices.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
First Flowering
Portraits from the Golden Age of Whaling
Scenes of Nostalgia
Into the Twentieth Century
Nantucket, the Barbizon of New England
Appendix 1: Lists of Nantucket Artists
Appendix 2: Paintings Lost in the Zero Main Street Fire
Appendix 3: Chronology of Selected Paintings
Appendix 4: Chronology of Selected Nantucket Paintings
Appendix 5: List of Illustrations by Artist
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