American Artists Materials: A Guide to Stretchers, Panels, Millboards, and Stencil Marks

This is the second of two volumes on American artists' materials and is organized into five parts: Stretchers & Patents; Auxiliary Supports, Panels, and Canvas; Trade Catalogues; Suppliers and Craftsmen (in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and England); and Three Case Histories (on the art materials of Thomas Cole, Jasper F. Cropsey, and Albert Bierstadt). With 269 illustrations in the text and reproductions of pages of trade catalogues at the back of the book.