Painting US EmpireA fresh look at the global dimensions of US painting from the 1850s to 1898. Painting US Empire is the first book to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism around the globe in the nineteenth century. In this work, art historian Maggie M. Cao crafts a nuanced portrait of nineteenth century US painters' complicity with and resistance to ascendant US imperialism, offering eye opening readings of canonical works, landscapes of polar