In the spirit of popular Rizzoli titles, including California Light and Hudson River School, At First Light chronicles a group of twenty-six artists from the last 200 years who lived and worked in Maine. The state’s extraordinary landscape - from its rugged coastline, quaint harbours, majestic mountains, and verdant forests - continues have a powerful effect on the artists who are drawn to its exceptional beauty.

A love letter to the popular New England state, the book - written by some of the foremost experts in the field - focuses each chapter on a different artist featuring some of the best examples of their work and newly commissioned photography of their home and studio. From picturesque bungalows to grander structures with beautiful vistas, the houses and studios featured are as diverse as the artists that inhabit them. The artists featured include fan favorites from the eighteenth century to the present day, such as Winslow Homer, Frank Benson, Marguerite and William Zorach, Rockwell Kent, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Eliot Porter, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, and Richard Estes, as well as N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth.