Preliminary Note 7 // CHAPTER ONE The First Painters 9 // CHAPTER TWO The First Sophistication 2J // CHAPTER THREE Before the Revolutionary War 45 // CHAPTER FOUR The Late Eighteenth Century 63 // CHAPTER FIVE Into the Nineteenth Century 87 // CHAPTER SIX Painting America io6 // CHAPTER SEVEN Painting at Mid-Century 128 // CHAPTER EIGHT The End of the Century 150 // CHAPTER NINE Early Twentieth-Century Realism ?5 // CHAPTER TEN First Generation Modernism 194 // CHAPTER ELEVEN Between the Wars 2I5 // CHAPTER TWELVE // To the Present 240 // Notes 262 // Selected Bibliography 269 // List of Illustrations 272