The History of American Tonalism is the first definitive account of the Tonalist movement that galvanized America"s artistic life in the decades around 1900. At over 500 pages and 400-plus color illustrations, the History offers both a chronological narrative and contextual re-evaluation of this long neglected--and crucial missing-link in American art. Through the splendor of the intimate and spirit-filled Tonalist landscape, the reader will be treated to a voyage of discovery, revealing America"s turn-of-the-century culture as never before. In the works of George Inness, Whistler, John Twachtman, and over sixty of America"s finest artists, in concert with the voices of Emerson, Thoreau, John Burroughs, William James and the finest critics of the period, the spiritual roots of Theodore Roosevelt"s reformist era is vividly brought alive. The History of American Tonalism will serve as the indispensable reference resource for art of the period, including path breaking scholarship...