
The book offers valuable tips on how to avoid common mistakes often experienced by new collectors drawn from the author's personal experiences as a collector and fine art dealer.

A longtime collector and owner of two fine art galleries, Alterman wanted to create a user-friendly book intended not only to educate collectors and enthusiasts about this art but to help train one's eye. Alterman, an expert in the field of Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist painting.

New Hope for American Art was authored, designed and published by James M. In this book, you'll find biographies and artwork from such artists as: Whether he traced letters in dust, walked miles to return a book just so he could borrow a new one, or kept a book in his back pocket. This book, with its 612 pages and over 1,000 color plates of artwork include biographies of 165 individual Pennsylvania Impressionists and New Hope Modernists as well as artists from the Philadelphia Ten, a pioneering group of women all educated at Philadelphia art schools. Poems about School, illustrated by Martha Weston and Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. In this extraordinarily tender, humorous, and lyrical look at young Abe Lincoln, Kay Winters introduces us to a boy who, despite heartbreaking hard times, never lost his passion for storytelling and learning. New Hope for American Art is the most comprehensive book ever published on artists from, and surrounding, the New Hope Art Colony (also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists).
