Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast

In this richly illustrated narrative, John Wilmerding explores the artistic allure of Mount Desert, bringing together individual studies of the artists who painted this famous island off the Maine coast in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Now available in paperback, this book will be accessible to a wider range of art-lovers, travelers, and nature enthusiasts who are interested in seeing how this coastal region of the Northeast captured the imaginations of several generations of American painters. Wilmerding explores the ways in which the different meanings that have been attached to Mount Desert Island reveal both the history of American landscape painting and the cultural concerns of each era.Wilmerding, John is the author of 'Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast' with ISBN 9780691034584 and ISBN 0691034583.