Once Great but now Forgotten: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painters: With Actual and Current Equivalent Auction Prices, 1946-2015 - Paperback

I am simply a collector of many years who is seeking to impart his knowledge of formerly famous but now obscure 19th century American landscape painters. In attending both undergraduate and graduate courses, I became fully conscious of the emphasis devoted by academia on post war contemporary art, to the exclusion of almost everything else. This book is being written in the hope of keeping alive the knowledge of these three artists and of the period when they created their art. In a prior life I was involved in finance as an attorney. In attempting to show the posthumous interest in their art, I have listed auction results from 1945 to the present. In making these prices more relevant, I have set forth for each sale, the dollar value in current prices. It becomes obvious, that except for certain rises and falls, the values of these paintings are no longer appreciated by the general collecting public. My last book, "Art as Investment: An Anthology of Academic Research Papers from the Past 100 Years", makes clear that art is usually not a good investment. I accept that as applicable to these artists as well. However, the reasonable prices of their paintings make them appealing to collectors. The artists have interesting histories, the paintings have aesthetic appeal while offering an interesting contrast to most contemporary art.