The Cultivation of Artists in Nineteenth-Century America

The study of artist education includes examining how historical and environmental factors affect the way artists receive their training. This collection of essays published by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) brings the role of history back into exploring how young people began and developed as artists in the nineteenth century. The contributors' work reveals the relationshiip between art education in public schools and training opportunities in the trade. Distributed for the American Antiquarian Society.