This book introduces American painting from the colonial period to the early 20th century. It includes works by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Rembrandt Peale, James Peale, Joshua Johnson, Edward Hicks. Thomas Cole. John Quidor. George Inness, John Frederick Kensett, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, James McNeill Whistler, William Merrill Chase, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Winslow Homer, and George Bellows.