Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914

We have reviewed previously (RR 99/162) the online version of the Dictionary of Art, and the massive 34‐volume printed edition (1996) will be known to our readers, whether or not their libraries were able to afford to purchase it. Now we have one of the first volumes in a “spin‐off” series, The Grove Library of World Art, a series which is itself sub‐divided: this is also the first volume of The Grove Encyclopedia of the Arts of the Americas. The first and especially significant point to be made is that this new series, and certainly this...