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• American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by H. Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Home Book of the Picturesque: or, American Scenery, Art, and Literature (HTML at LOC)

• American Icons: Transatlantic Persectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Heinz Ickstadt (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• American Icons: Transatlantic Persectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Heinz Ickstadt (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by H. Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• Masterpieces of American Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Random House, c1986), by Margaretta Salinger, contrib. by John K. Howat (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 April through 3 June 1973 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1973), by Dianne H. Pilgrim, contrib. by John K. Howat (multiple formats with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• American Paintings and Historical Prints From the Middendorf Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Stuart P. Feld (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Systemic Painting (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1966), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Lawrence Alloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Six Painters and the Object (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1963), by Lawrence Alloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists (c1961), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ed. by H. H. Amason (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Younger American Painters: A Selection (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, ca. 1954), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by James Johnson Sweeney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fairmount, 1928 (c1928), by Thomas B. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Index to Reproductions of American Paintings: A Guide to Pictures Occurring in More than Eight Hundred Books (New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1948), by Isabel Stevenson Monro and Kate M. Monro (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elements of Modern Painting (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1961), by Thomas M. Messer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman Collection series v3; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), by Richard R. Brettell, contrib. by Paul Hayes Tucker and Natalie Henderson Lee (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Guggenheim International Award, 1964 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1963), ed. by Lawrence Alloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• One Hundred Paintings From the G. David Thompson Collection (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1961), by G. David Thompson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Guggenheim International Award, 1960 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1960), ed. by Louise Averill Svendsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Guggenheim International Award, 1958 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1958), ed. by Louise Averill Svendsen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Third Enlarged Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenhaim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings: March 7 Until April 17th, 1938, Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (c1938), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, contrib. by Hilla Rebay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Second Enlarged Catalogue of the Solomon R. Guggenhaim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, On Exhibition From February 8, 1937 Through February 28, 1937: Presented by the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (c1937), contrib. by Hilla Rebay and Yarnall Abbott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Solomon R. Guggenhaim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, On Exhibition From March 1, 1936 Through April 12, 1936: Presented by the Carolina Art Association at the Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (c1936), contrib. by Hilla Rebay (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cezanne and Structure in Modern Painting (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1963), by Daniel Robbins (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Guggenheim International Exhibition, 1971 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1966), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Diane Waldman and Edward F. Fry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blast (1914-1915; only ran two issues), ed. by Wyndham Lewis (full serial archives)

• Modern Dutch Painting: An Introduction (New York et al.: Netherlands Information Service, ca. 1950), ed. by Hans Koning (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Before Picasso; After Miró (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1960), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by James Johnson Sweeney (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• In Honor of "Brooklyn's Fighting Lady": Ada B. Jackson, Champion of People's Rights in Bedford-Stuyvesant for More than a Quarter of a Century (citizen's rally and campaign booklet; New York: Bedford-Stuyvesant Committee to Elect Ada B. Jackson, 1947), by Belle Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (includes Inherit the Wind; Auntie Mame; The Gang's All Here; Only in America; A Call on Kuprin; Diamond Orchid; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; First Monday in October; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, ed. by Alan Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1983), ed. by Dennis Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Alice in Blunderland: A Farce in One Act for Four Male and Two Female Performers (Boston: W. H. Baker, c1903), by William Lincoln Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Writers on America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2002), ed. by George Clack (PDF at state.gov)
• Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)

• The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1921) (page images at CMU)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), ed. by John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (originally New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1927; reprinted Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2023), ed. by Countee Cullen, illust. by Aaron Douglas (PDF at unl.edu)
• American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922), contrib. by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, James Oppenheim, Alfred Kreymborg, Sara Teasdale, Louis Untermeyer, John Gould Fletcher, Jean Starr Untermeyer, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Conrad Aiken, and Edna St. Vincent Millay (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• American Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse (Munich: K. Wolff Verlag, c1923), ed. by Leonora Speyer, contrib. by Conrad Aiken, Maxwell Bodenheim, Anna Hempstead Branch, Witter Bynner, Adelaide Crapsey, Emily Dickinson, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), T. S. Eliot, John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Orrick Johns, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Vaughn Moody, Marianne Moore, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Lola Ridge, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, Ridgely Torrence, Louis Untermeyer, William Carlos Williams, and Elinor Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Poets' Corner)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, and Year Book of American Poetry, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Michigan)
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (New York: Printed For Frank Shay (Flying Cloud Press), 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Bellman Book of Verse, 1906-1919 (Minneapolis: Bellman Co., 1919), ed. by William C. Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (based on the 1948 edition), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML with commentary in Germany)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (New York: Guido Bruno, 1915), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Few Figs from Thistles (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Modern American Poets (London: Martin Secker, 1922), ed. by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Navigable Waterways, by Pamela Alexander (HTML at CAPA)
• The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1917), ed. by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Precipitations (New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1920), by Evelyn Scott
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• The Second Book of Modern Verse, ed. by Jessie B. Rittenhouse (Gutenberg text)
• Sudden Hunger, by Debra Bruce (HTML at CAPA)
• Vigils (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1921), by Aline Kilmer
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Anthology of Massachusetts Poets, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (Gutenberg text)
• Eight Harvard Poets (New York: L. J. Gomme, 1917), contrib. by E. E. Cummings, S. Foster Damon, John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, Stewart Mitchell, William A. Norris, Dudley Poore, and Cuthbert Wright (Gutenberg text)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology, by Richard Aldington, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Poet's Corner

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