For the first time, a set of distinguished American and British art historians consider the complex history of Anglo-American relations from the colonial period through to the 1960s* Features a transatlantic group of scholars considering the impact of this relationship on the history of art in both nations* Offers a set of new approaches, and much new material relating to the history of British and American art* Situates the history of British and American art in the context of recent scholarship, offering a new reading of this key artistic interaction

6 Notes on Contributors8 Chapter 1 Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USADavid Peters Corbett and Sarah Monks30 Chapter 2 The Wolfe Man: Benjamin West's Anglo-American AccentSarah Monks52 Chapter 3 Failure to Deliver: Watson and the Shark and the Boston Tea PartyJennifer L. Roberts74 Chapter 4 Picturesque Nostalgia as Ironic Dislocation: Joshua Shaw's Disruptive Visions of the Old New WorldKenneth Haltman92 Chapter 5 Details of Absence: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Post-Emancipation JamaicaJennifer Raab110 Chapter 6 Troubled Abstraction: Whiteness in Charles Dana Gibson and George Du MaurierJennifer A. Greenhill132 Chapter 7 'In seen and unseen places': The Henry G. Marquand House and Collections in England and AmericaMelody Barnett Deusner152 Chapter 8 Camden Town and Ashcan: Difference, Similarity and the 'Anglo-American' in the Work of Walter Sickert and John SloanDavid Peters Corbett174 Chapter 9 Losing Sight: War, Authority, and Blindness in British and American Visual Cultures, 1914-22David M. Lubin196 Chapter 10 The Madness of Art: Georgia O'Keeffe and Virginia WoolfAlexander Nemerov216 Chapter 11 'Strange Encounters': Claes Oldenburg's 'Proposed Colossal Monuments' for New York and LondonJo Applin236 Chapter 12 David Hockney: A Taste for Los AngelesCécile Whiting253 Index