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The article discusses the roles of great artists as art teachers. It states that a great majority of artists were good art instructors while all of the great teachers are artists of a different kind than Michelangelo and El Greco, more conscious and articulate and more like Lorenzo Ghiberti and Thomas Eakins. Students can also reportedly influence their masters with the most brilliant and highly influential like Emile Bernard, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh.

The article focuses on the works of U.S. painters during the 1930s and 1940s. It states that most U.S. artists during this time went to France where their skills were enhanced by the availability of free time and the intellectual climate of Paris. The author observes that most of the works during this period were influenced by older generation of realists but there were also younger painters who practiced abstractionism as a form of revolt against the elders.

The article focuses on the development of romanticism as a style of painting in the U.S. According to the author, the influence of painter Albert Pinkham Ryder on romantic painting can be vaguely seen in the styles of Washington Allston, George B. Fuller and a few more American painters. He states that Allston was the first of the American romantic painters who was able to combine the styles of West classicism and romanticism.

The article focuses on the role of female artists in the history of art. It narrates how in the eighteenth century women had to assert themselves for their needs to be recognized and how female supporters of the art started to increase from contributing to literature to posing as models for paintings and portraits. It explores the lives, works, subject matter and techniques of pioneering female artists including Angelica Kauffmann, Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun, and Mary Cassatt.

The article discusses the style in painting of U.S. artists. It states that the picturesque aspect of light has been recognized by various native painters in the U.S. scene. Thomas Eakins reportedly used the clear light of a sunny day to paint "Schmitt in a Single Scull." Edward Hopper painted scenes along the Maine coast with realistic clarity. Georgia O'Keefe painted the Southwest in its crystal, light atmosphere.

In this article, the author offers a look at several museums located in the U.S. in 1961. The Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York features a bronze figure of a girl, a Cubist figure by artist Jacques Lipchitz, and a Crucifix made of ivory. Other featured American museums include the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.