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The authors provide an examination of American expatriate artists living in Europe, Latin America, and Africa, over the course of the last 150 years.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Whistler's Paintings in Valparaiso: Carpe Diem by Robert H. Getscher Bullfights and Balconies: Flirtation and Majismo in Mary Cassatt's Spanish Paintings of 1872-73 by M. Elizabeth Boone The American Artists in Grez by William H. Gerdts Bridging the Gap of Difference: Anne Klumpke's "union" with Rosa Bonheur by Britta C. Dwyer John Singer Sargent: Accidental Heir to the American Expatriate Tradition by Kathleen L. Butler "'Heads of Thought and Reflection': Busts of Busts of African Warriors by Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and Augusta Savage, African American Sculptors in Paris, 1922-1934" by Theresa Leininger-Miller The Mexican Murals of Marion and Grace Greenwod by James Oles Fashioning Nationality: Sam Fracis, Joan Mitchell, and American Expatriate Artists in Paris in the 1950s by Michael Plante R.B. Kitaj: Painting as Personal Voyage by Carol Salus Global Citizen: Beverly Pepper by Laura Felleman Fattal Index

About the Author

LAURA FELLEMAN FATTAL, an arts administrator, educator, and historian, is currently the Director of the New Jersey School of the Arts. She has curated several exhibitions, taught studio arts at the college level, written on arts in education, and served in many executive positions in arts policymaking. CAROL SALUS is Associate Professor of Art History at Kent State University, where she has taught 20th-century American and European courses.

Reviews

"These essays should help us begin to rethink how we interpret the American in American art."-Anthony W. Lee Associate Professor of Art History Mount Holyoke College