Charles Willson Peale - Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic

University of California Press, 2004. Slight fading to spine, otherwise good secondhand condition.

At last, Charles Willson Peale is revealed, compleat and complex: as the familiar and essential artist and scientist, to be sure, but also as the patriot, parent, publicist, and more. David Ward's astute examination of this unique polymath introduces unexpected aspects of the man and, in so doing, sheds new light on the genius of the American Enlightenment. A masterly portrait, and an interpretive tour de force.?Charles C. Eldredge, author of Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings