Christopher Nevinson is best known for his depictions of World War I, but he was also an accomplished painter and printmaker. In this, the most comprehensive book available on Nevinson's work and art, his achievements and his contribution to twentieth-century art receive a long-overdue reassessment.

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.