Includes bibliographical references (pages [280]-289) and index.
A letter -- They started with a bright idea -- George Catlin -- James Otto Lewis -- Henry Vianden -- Samuel Marsden Brooks -- Bernard Isaac Durwood -- Mark Robert Harrison -- Alexander Marquis -- Frederick Stanton Perkins -- Lydia Ely (Hewitt) -- Henry Hamilton Bennett -- Panorama Painting -- Bernhard Schneider -- Franz Biberstein -- Frederick Wilhelm Heine -- Richard Lorenz -- Robert Schade -- Conrad Heyd -- Vinnie Ream Hoxie -- Susan Stuart -- Goodrich Frackleton -- Theodore Robinson -- Carl von Marr -- John Fery -- Frank Enders -- Adam Emory Albright -- Mathilde Georgine (Mathilda Georgina) Schley -- George Raab -- Louis Mayer -- Adolph Robert Shulz -- Ada Walter Shulz -- Helen Farnsworth Mears -- Alexander Mueller -- Bruno Ertz -- Emily Groom -- Merton Grenhagen -- Edward Steichen -- Jessie Kalmbach Chase -- Gustave Moeller -- Francesco J. Spicuzza -- Elsa Emilie Ulbricht -- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe -- Robert Franz Von Neumann -- Alfred George Pelikan -- John Steuart Curry -- Carl Robert Holty -- Marshall Glasier -- Gerhard C. F. Miller -- Gerhard Bakker -- Guido Brink -- Phil Austin -- Edmund Lewandowski -- Karl Priebe -- James Alfred Schwalbach -- Thomas Dietrich -- Lester Bentley -- Santos Zingale -- Aaron Bohrod -- Gertrude Abercrombie -- John Wilde -- Owen Gromme -- Sister Thomasita Fessler -- Ruth Grotenrath -- Schomer Lichtner -- JoAnna Poehlmann -- Warrington Colescott -- Kevin Henkes -- Levi Fisher Ames -- Eugene Von Bruenchenhein -- Adolph Vandertie -- Mary Nohl -- Norbert Kox -- Dr. Evermor -- Fred Stonehouse -- Robert Randall Burkert -- Nancy Ekholm Burkert -- Patrick Farrell -- Evelyn Patricia Terry -- Michael Riddet -- Charles Dix -- Harvey K. Littleton -- Tom Uttrech -- Dean Meeker -- Dan Gerhartz -- Lee Weiss -- Claggett Wilson -- Architecture and design -- Louis W. Claude -- Edward F. Starck -- Arthur Peabody -- George Edwin Bergstrom -- Alexander Eschweiler -- Ferry and Clas Architects -- Keck and Keck Architects -- Brooks Stevens -- George Mann Niedecker -- Marshall Erdman -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Creativity continues -- Places to visit -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- More about Wisconsin artists and architects -- Index