Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental in the United States

A bold new view of sentimental art’s significance in American visual culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century

In Moved to Tears, Rebecca Bedell overturns received ideas about sentimental art. Countering its association with trite and saccharine Victorian kitsch, Bedell argues that major American artists-from John Trumbull and Charles