NOCTURNE: Night in American Art, 1890-1917

Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so captivated by the night, and examines works by such artists as James McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, Edward Steichen, and Henry Ossawa Tanner through the lens of the scientific developments that dominated the period. Well illustrated, most in color.