For far too long genre painting was seen as an inferior category of artistic expression. This exhibition and publication tried to rectify this problem by demonstrating the broad diversity of genre imagery in France and America from 1850-1900. The public taste for this type of imagery is recorded; the ways in which critics responded to the huge number of genre painters is also noted.

Redefining Genre. French and American Painting 1850-1900 (with an essay by Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu), Washington, D.C., The Trust for Museum Exhibitions (Distributed by University of Washington Press), 1995