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Original 1910 hardcover edition printed by Scribners in New York. Former library book received 1912. Cover has some tears along the binding. Boards have wear. Pages are clean. The binding is secure.
This well-aged volume offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of Impressionist art through the eyes of James Huneker, one of America’s earliest and most influential critics of the movement. Published in 1910, “Promenades of an Impressionist” captures Huneker’s impassioned advocacy for the revolutionary French painters who upended traditional artistic conventions with their bold, light-drenched canvases and loose, broken brushwork.
As a former librarian, Huneker was deeply immersed in European culture, and his writings introduced American audiences to the radical visions of Monet, Renoir, Degas, and their contemporaries. This copy bears the stamps of its early life as a library book, with its worn boards and binding tears hinting at the many hands it passed through over the decades. Yet the clean pages preserve Huneker’s eloquent prose, inviting modern readers to share his awe and delight in the Impressionist masterpieces that once scandalized the art world.
