Coming of age : historical scholarship in American art / Wanda M. Corn -- Reading eighteenth-century American family portraits : social images and self-images / Margaretta M. Lovell -- Ariadne and the Indians : Vanderlyn's neoclassical princess, racial seduction, and the melodrama of abandonment / David M. Lubin -- Thomas Cole and Jacksonian America : the course of empire as political allegory / Angela Miller -- George Caleb Bingham's The county election : whig tribute to the will of the people / Gail E. Husch -- Two sculptures for the capitol : Horatio Greenough's Rescue and Luigi Persico's Discovery of America / Vivien Green Fryd -- American folk art : questions and quandaries / John Michael Vlach-- New Mexican Santos and the preservation of religious traditions / William Wroth -- Albums of war : on reading Civil War photographs / Alan Trachtenberg -- Trapper, hunter, and woodsman : Winslow Homer's Adirondack figures / David Tatham -- Thomas Eakins and "pure art" education / Elizabeth Johns -- The "earnest, untiring worker" and the magician of the brush : gender politics in the criticism of Cecilia Beaux and John Singer Sargent / Sarah Burns -- Lifting the "veil" : Henry O. Tanner's The banjo lesson and The thankful poor / Judith Wilson -- Columbus and Columbia : man of genius meets generic woman, Chicago, 1893 / Judy Sund -- George Bellow's Stag at Sharkey's : boxing, violence, and male identity / Robert E. Haywood -- Who will paint New York? The world's new art center and the New York paintings of Georgia O'Keefe / Anna C. Chave -- American art and national identity : the 1920s / Matthew Baigell -- "In my family of primitiveness and tradition" : William H. Johnson's Jesus and the three Marys / Richard J. Powell -- Images of American women in the 1930s : Reginald Marsh and Paramount picture / Erika L. Doss -- Florine Stettheimer : rococo subversive / Linda Nochlin