American Beauty -139

This is an overview of some of the remarkably high number of great American painters focusing mostly on those born between 1820 and 1880. American artists were rising to pretentious heights and by the time of the famous White City, Chicago, Columbian Exposition, in 1893 were showing signs of beginning to truly hold their own in Western art. Few American art histories give any idea of the greatness of American art at that time.

QUESTION: Was American painting ever very strong and, if so, does it deserve greater exposure, recognition, and celebration in relation to the Western world at large?