TY - BOOK AU - Sessions,Ralph AU - Becker,Jack AU - Merrill,Linda ED - Ira Spanierman Gallery. TI - The poetic vision: American tonalism SN - 0945936745 AV - ND210.5.T6 P64 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New York, NY PB - Spanierman Gallery, LLC KW - Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, KW - Tryon, Dwight William, KW - Whistler, James McNeill, KW - Landscape painting, American KW - 19th century KW - Exhibitions KW - 20th century KW - Tonalism KW - United States KW - Influence N1 - Catalog of an exhibition held at Spanierman Gallery, New York, Nov. 12, 2005-Jan. 7, 2006; Includes bibliographical references (p. 195) and index; Foreword / Ira Spanierman -- Acknowledgments / Ralph Sessions -- Introduction / Ralph Sessions -- American tonalism : an artistic overview / William H. Gerdts -- Championing tonal painting : the Lotos Club / Jack Becker -- The Society of American Landscape Painters / William H. Gerdts -- George Inness and tonalist uncertainty / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- The soul of refinement : Whistler and American tonalism / Linda Merrill -- "Spiritualized naturalism" : the tonal-impressionist art of J. Alden Weir and John H. Twachtman / Lisa N. Peters -- Alfred Stieglitz and tonalism : the Americanization of pictorial photography / Diane P. Fischer -- Uniting the fine and decorative arts : tonalism and American art ceramics / Ellen Paul Denker -- Adelaide Crapsey : a tonalist life in letters / William H. Gerdts -- Entries / Carol Lowrey ; with contributions by Linda Merrill and Lisa N. Peters -- Appendix : index of participants at the Society of Landscape Painters and Key Lotos Club exhibitions and collector biographies / Lisa N. Peters -- Selected bibliography / Ralph Sessions -- Contibutors -- Index to reproductions ER -