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Yale Univ Press [Published Date: 1957]. Hardcover, 759 pp. 8th printing. In very good condition/ NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with black block and gold lettering on spine. light bumping and scuffing and soiling to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From Introduction] … What is needed is a comprehensive, documented biographical dictionary summarizing a generation’s research on the artists of early America. The New-York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860 is designed to meet that need. This is a purely biographical dictionary, arranged alphabetically by artist. The aim has been to give for every artist as much as possible of the following information: full name, dates and places of birth and death, media and subject matter of his work, chronology of residences and exhibitions, pupils, and in some instances locations and reproductions of representative works…To summarize [this book] is a documented biographical dictionary of painters, draftsmen, sculptors, engravers, lithographers, and allied artists, either amateur or professional, native or foreign-born, who worked within the present continental limits of the United States between the years 1564 and 1860 inclusive.