In a New Light: American Paintings to 1950 at the Palmer Museum of Art

In a New Light is the first permanent collection catalogue in the Palmer Museum of Arts fifty-two-year history. Made possible by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, this multi-author book studies and celebrates the institutions most significant collection area, American art. The fully illustrated publication features short essays on 155 historically and aesthetically important paintings written by 66 art historians and curators from the United States and England. Readers can expect new scholarship on paintings by artists Georgia OKeeffe, William Trost Richards, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Benjamin West, Marguerite Zorach, and many more. The release of In a New Light coincides with the opening of the Palmer Museums new seventy-three-thousand-square-foot building designed by Allied Works.