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Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction
Authors: Michael D. Schroeder and J. Gray Sweeney
Publication: Afton Historical Society Press, Afton, MN, 2003
Gilbert Munger was a hugely successful artist in his lifetime, lauded in America and Europe for his expansive landscapes. By the time of his death in 1903, however, his work was almost forgotten. This insightful critical study, illustrated with numerous paintings from all phases of the artist’s career, endeavors to re-situate Munger in the history of art. It is extremely well written, combining sensible analysis with thorough research, while avoiding the “familiar rhetoric of celebration and of the triumph and tragedy of a ‘genius artist.'”