Often seen as backward-looking and convention-bound, genre painting representing scenes of everyday life was central to the work of twentieth-century artists such as John Sloan, Norman Rockwell, Jacob Lawrence, and…

This compelling biography tells the story of John Van Nest Talmage, a pioneering missionary who spent more than forty years in South China. With detailed accounts of his missionary work…

The book

Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is…

Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC –Colophon.