About the Author

Linda Merrill is a former curator of American art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Marc Simpson is associate director of the graduate programme in art history and lecturer on American art at Williams College; Sylvia Yount is curator of American art at the High Museum of Art; John Siewert is assistant professor of modern and contemporary art history at The College of Wooster, Ohio; Robyn Asleson is a former research associate of the National Gallery of Art and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens; Lee Glazer is an independent scholar specializing in turn-of-the-century American painting; and Lacey Taylor Jordan is an art historian based in Washington, D.C..