The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism

New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005. Hardbound. New. BASEMENT. Color pictorial hardcover. 200 pp. with 112 large color plates. This is an exhibition that provides the broadest understanding thus far of a movement that played a major role in American art at the turn of the twentieth century. Although a renewed awareness of Tonalism has been growing since the 1970s, many misconceptions about the movement and the identity of its practitioners have lingered. Drawing on the contributions of leading scholars, this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue seek to clarify many of the questions that have been raised about Tonalism, while contributing to the ongoing discussion as to its nature in general and how it was manifested in painting, as well as in photography, the decorative arts, and poetry. Includes detailed essays by Ralph Sessions, Jack Becker, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Ellen Paul Denker, Diane P.Fischer, William H. Gerdts, Carol Lowrey, Linda Merrill and Lisa N.Peters . Some of the artists represented include Ralph Albert Blakelock, Bruce Crane, Leon Dabo, Charles Harold Davis, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Charles Warren Eaton, Birge Harrison, Arthur Hoeber, George Inness, Hermann Dudley Murphy, Leonard Ochtman, Charles Rollo Peters, Henry Ward Ranger, Dwight William Tryon, James McNeill Whistler, and Alexander H. Wyant.