History of American Painting, Volume Two: The Light of Distant Skies (1760-1835) by James Thomas Flexner, 2/5

This second volume is less combative in tone than the first, but is still illustrated by depressingly low-quality, black and white reproductions of historic paintings. Flexner’s writing style is not unpleasant, but an overall lack of cohesiveness makes it difficult to place the info in context and I finished the book feeling that I had absorbed practically nothing (which was also the case with the first book in the series).

Why I read it: an old library sale find.