Whistler to Cassatt: American painters in France

Directors' foreword / Christoph Heinrich and Alex Nyerges

Facture in Paris / Timothy J. Standring

The training of nineteenth-century American painters at the École des Beaux-Arts / Emmanuelle Brugerolles

James McNeill Whistler: A conduit between France and America / Suzanne Singletary

Why Paris became the center of American art in the gilded age / Randall C. Griffin

A portrait of the artist as a young woman: The Franco-American experience, 1871-1914 / Susan J. Rawles

"The Great Annual Exhibition": American painters and American impressionism at the Paris salon / Benjamin W. Colman

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