Table of Contents ForewordArt of Acadia: A Centennial CelebrationPurpose of book: to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Acadia National Park through the artists who have found their muse in the greater Mount Desert Island region. 2-4 imagesIntroductionArriving at AcadiaShort personal essay about how the authors came to Acadia 6-8 images Pre(r)ambleAcadia: The Lay of the Island Description of the area: location in Maine, physical features, allure, with maps, aerial views, silhouettes, stereoscope views8-12 images Part 1: 17th-19th CenturyEarliest depictions and first artistsNative Americans, DeBry engraving (1627), English Pilot silhouette (1760), F. Graeter hand-colored lithographs (1836), etc. Paintings by Thomas Doughty, Alvin Fisher 16-18 imagesHudson River SchoolFrederic Church (1826-1900) at MDI (1850- 1865), with his contemporaries and later 19th-century artists: Thomas Cole, Fitz Henry Lane, William Stanley Haseltine, Sanford R. Gifford, Jervis McEntee, et al. 25 imagesLate 19th-Century Illustration and ArtGuidebooks, adventure stories, engravings, drawings, photographs, paintings, stereoscopic views, etc. 25 images Part 2: 20th Century Acadia National ParkCarriage trails, bridges, gardens, scenic views (includes the Champlain Society, artist-in-residence program, etc.)25 imagesCarroll Sargent TysonImpressionist painter 10-12 images 20th-Century ArtistsJohn Singer Sargent, Dwight Blaney, Childe Hassam, Marguerite Zorach, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Maurice Freedman, et al., plus 2-4 pages on cartographers 40 imagesFigures of Island LiteratureExcerpts of poetry and prose, with short bios of 10-15 authors 5 imagesTIPS—The Three Islesford PaintersH. B. Warren, C. Scott White, and C. E. Kinkead 20 images Artists of Great Cranberry Island Postwar generation: Heliker, LaHotan, Kienbusch, Campbell, Nelson, et al. 20 images Part 3: Acadia Contemporary 1970-2015Artists of Acadia Full range of interpretations of the island 90-120 images Afterword Portrait GallerySelected bibliographyAcknowledgements Index