From the Archive
Issue 12
Whitman and the Visual Arts
1990

Introduction by Geoffrey Sill
Table of Contents
- “The Influence of Whitman on Early Twentieth-Century American Painting”
by Matthew Baigell - “ ‘The Gathering Forces’: Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts, 1845-55”
by Ruth Bohan - “Courbet and Whitman: A Case Study in International Rebellion”
by Albert Boime - “New Documentation on Thomas Eakins and Walt Whitman in Camden”
by William I. Homer - “‘ The Best of Democracy’: Walt Whitman, Jean-François Millet, and Popular Culture in Post-Civil War America”
by Laura Meixner - “Mahonri Young’s Sculptures of Laboring Men, French and American Realism, and Whitman’s Poetrics for Democracy”
by Roberta K. Tarbell - “Louis Sullivan’s Emersonian Reading of Walt Whitman”
by Lauren Weingarden
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EDITOR
Geoffrey M. SillGUEST EDITOR
Roberta K. TarbellASSISTANT EDITOR
Lisa TraceyCONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Donald Kummings
Jean Pearson
Howard Nelson
David S. ReynoldsART EDITOR
John GiannottiEDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Bill Major
Steve Boyer
Denise Buzz -
Issue Credits
Mickle Street Review is sponsored and published by the Department of English at the Camden campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
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“Thomas Eakins: The Secret Whitman Sitting” previously appeared in The Hudson Review (Autumn, 1988). Used by permission.
Part of the Camden Online Poetry Project.
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Supported in part by a grant from the
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.