As part of our role in educating collectors and artists, as the months progress we will be sharing both current, out-of-print and antiquarian books that may be of interest to artists and aficionados of traditional art.

     Over the decades, Morseburg Galleries has built a large research library of books on American, European and Asian art, with volumes dating back to the 19th-century Romantic period. We also have an extensive collection of periodicals going back to the Antebellum period. Such American publications as the American Magazine of Art , Art Digest , Mentor , the FineArts Journal and Art Journal are critical to understanding the development of American art. British periodicals such as International Studio , Art Journal and the Magazine of Art illuminate art in England, the British Colonies and Continental Europe. From our collections and new acquisitions, we will recommend books that will appeal to artists, collectors and connoisseurs. We begin with the turn-of-the-century traditionalists, who attempted to hold back the tide of modernism. We follow with a look at the American Renaissance, an optimistic movement that envisioned American cities as successors to the great art capitals of Europe.