Robert L. Herbert

Examines the use of cafes, opera houses, dance halls, theaters, racetracks, and the seaside in impressionist French paintings

Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society

Impressionism

Yale University. Art Gallery

Arthur G. Altschul

Neo-impressionists and Nabis in the Collection of Arthur G. Altschul

From the pen of one of Amherst, Massachusetts's most important women comes an intriguing glimpse into the nineteenth century. Twice, Orra White Hitchcock traveled with her husband, Edward, a famous geologist and president of Amherst College. She kept meticulous diary entries of their journeys, observing with wit and frankness the people and places she encountered. Orra writes behind-the-scenes accounts of a scientific conference in Edinburgh and of a visit with some of the century's most notable contemporary scientists in London. She describes in stunning and honest detail Sunday services, an international antiwar congress in Frankfurt, and slavery on the streets of Richmond, Virginia. Because she was an open-minded woman, her pages are rich in entertaining stories of botanical gardens, public entertainments, and the shops of London and Paris. She also indulges the reader with romantic descriptions of memorable landscapes in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Switzerland. Spanning the ocean from America to Europe, Orra's never-before-published travel journals offer a vivid, inside look at one woman's unique experiences in a world moving toward modernity.

The Travel Diaries of Orra White Hitchcock, 1847 and 1850

A Woman of Amherst

16 of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators talk forcefully about their work: Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Henry Moore, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, El Lissitzky, Fernand Léger, and more.

Second Enlarged Edition

Modern Artists on Art

Essays by such artists as Klee, Mondrian, and Kandinsky are representative of the different modern attitudes towards art.

Ten Unabridged Essays

A volume which embodies an entire generation of scholarship on the artist. Seurat's brief but brilliant career is traced from his early academic drawings of the 1870s to the paintings of popular entertainments and the serene landscapes of his final years.

Robert L. Herbert

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