try a web search using the terms 19c american landscape painting "reading list" several hits will result -- often from others teaching a similar course here is one on the Hudson River School _http://faculty.mville.edu/hannumg/ARH3029.pdf_ (http://faculty.mville.edu/hannumg/ARH3029.pdf) and maybe ? ask a handy, dandy local librarian for suggestions? Barbara Hass, retired librarian - former New Yorker who loves the Hudson In a message dated 10/21/2009 4:03:13 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: Hello. The last time I taught a grad seminar on 19th-century American landscape painting was 2002. I am looking for reasonably priced books/ exhibition catalogues that we can use as textbooks. Those starred below seem to be out of print, at least according to UC's bookstore order form. In addition to the others (to which I add quite a few articles), what might anyone recommend for a class that is 10 weeks long? Bedell, Rebecca. The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN 0691074631 Conron, John. American Picturesque. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State Press, 2000. ISBN 0271019204 *Ketner, Joseph D. The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993. Miller, Angela. The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and America. Cornell: Cornell University Press, 1996. ISBN 0801483387 Novak, Barbara. Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 019510188X *Truettner, William, ed. The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. F596.W493 Btw, I am going to the symposium on the subject at New Paltz soon, and look forward to recommendations from participants there, too. Many thanks, Theresa [log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask]) ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).