Description: There have been sculptors and painters in every generation of the Negus-Fuller family for the past two hundred years, and Blair Fuller's account of their lives is at once an engaging family memoir and an informal history of the art world. There were portrait painters of rural Americans, slaves, Boston intellectuals and bankers; painters of stage sets; of seascapes; of desert mountains; and of dreams. There were miniaturists and symbolists, impressionists and neo-classicists, surrealists and meticulous realists, an early abstract painter who strove to create religious experiences for his viewers, and a contemporary sculptor who makes art from junkyard materials. Their stories, rendered with pride and affection in Blair Fuller's graceful prose, give an intimate view of what it was like to be an artist in America from Revolutionary times to the present -- their struggles to survive and succeed, the particular challenges faced by women artists, and the influence of changing trends in American tastes and art training.

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