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15 Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996), pp. 79-119.

16 For an excellent discussion of Field, see Doreen Bolger, "Hamilton Easter Field and His Contribution to American Modernism," American Art Journal, vol. 20, no. 2 (1988), pp. 79-107.

17 The Technique of Oil Paintings and Other Essays (Ardsley House, Brooklyn, New York, 1913), p. 58.

18 Quoted in Susan Lubowsky, "From Naivete to Maturity: 1906-1939," in Yasuo Kuniyoshi (Tokyo Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1989), p. 23.

19 "Yankee Modernism," Picturing Old New England (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999), p. 201.

THOMAS ANDREW DENENBERG is the Richard Koopman Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.

TRACIE FELKER is a development specialist at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.