Marianne DoezemaMarianne Doezema is Florence Finch Abbott Director of the Mount Holyoke Art Museum. She is the author of George Bellows and Urban America and coeditor of Reading American Art. Christopher Benfey is Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He isthe author of two books on Emily Dickinson and a biography of Stephen Crane and a frequent contributor to The New York Times. His most recent book is Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable. Susan Danly, formerly curator of American Art at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, was recently appointed Curator of Graphics, Photographs, and Art Since 1950 at the Portland Museum of Art. She is coeditor, with Leo Marx, of The Railroad in American Art: Representations of Technological Change. Martha Hoppin, an independent curator of American art, has published articles in American Art Journal and American Art Review. Ethan Carr is Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service. Read More Read Less