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This indispensable resource for art of this period includes path-breaking scholarship on a considerable number of major artists. In addition to the more renowned Tonalists, a host of lesser known but highly talented artists are identified for the first time, including biographical information and color reproductions to elucidate their chronological and stylistic development. Based on new research and many never-before-published images, this treatise tells the fascinating story of how the progressive Tonalist landscape first dethroned the Hudson River School in the late 1870s and then went on to become the dominant school in American art until World War I. This lavishly illustrated volume explores the modernist dynamic within the Tonalist movement that saw the decorative landscapes of Aesthetic Tonalism of the 1880s and 1890s give way to Expressive Tonalism after 1900, which in turn laid the groundwork for the modernist artists in the Stieglitz Circle, and subsequently Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman, and post-modern Tonalists like Wolf Kahn. --