This remarkable two-volume catalogue documents and illuminates the collection of American paintings in the Nelson-Atkins. A stunningly beautiful, thorough, and engaging record of the collection, American Paintings to 1945 also marks a substantial contribution to the fields of American art history and cultural studies. It is the fourth in a series of publications documenting the Museum's holdings.

Edited by Margaret C. Conrads, the Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins, this catalogue covers 266 Museum pieces, from the colonial period to early modernism.

Hardcover, Volume I: 562 pages, 141 color plates; Volume 2: 280 pages, 267 color plates, 12.7" x 10"