Hélène Valance, Nocturne. Night in American Art, 1890–1917

Abstract

Nocturne - Night in American Art, 1890–1917 was originally published in French as Nuits americaines: l’art du nocturne aux Etats-Unis, 1890–1917. In this lavishly illustrated book, Helene Valance proposes to explore the radical change that occurred in American art in the early 1890s, from Hudson River School painters’ grandiose depiction of the American wilderness to artists who “devot[ed] themselves almost systematically to an art that favored atmospheric effects, with a preeminent place...