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Comprehensive survey of Florida's artistic heritage from the earliest European depictions of the peninsula through the end of World War II.
Mann traces artistic responses to Florida's landscapes, Indigenous peoples, settlement history, tourism development, and New Deal-era public art.
Featured artists include Jacques Le Moyne, John James Audubon, George Catlin, Martin Johnson Heade, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Milton Avery, and many lesser-known painters whose work documented Florida's cultural and environmental history.
The volume includes a substantial artist directory, bibliography, notes, and index, making it both a reference work and a richly illustrated art-history survey.
Contemporary gift inscription on the half-title page reading, 'To our Florida docent with love, Nan & Gene,' dated Christmas 2000.
Book condition is Near Fine: binding square and tight, pages clean and bright, with only minor shelf wear and a few small marks to the cloth boards.
Dust jacket grades Very Good+, showing light rubbing, superficial scratches, and mild edge wear with a short closed tear at the bottom front panel; jacket remains attractive and unclipped.
No library markings.
Stated First Edition with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page, confirming a first printing of the first edition.
Printed in Hong Kong; design by Carol Tornatore.
Maybelle Mann (1915-2007) was an American art historian, curator, and author specializing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art.
Holding a Ph.
D.
from New York University, she has written extensively on American painters, printmakers, and art institutions.
Art in Florida: 1564-1945 is considered one of the first comprehensive statewide surveys of Florida art history and remains an important reference for collectors, museums, historians, and scholars of regional American art.
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