This is the first modern scholarly monograph on the artist William Singer. The publication accompanies an exhibition of the same name in the Singer Museum, Laren, which owns almost 250 works by this landscape painter, and affords a new survey of the diversity and extent of his oeuvre. The author, Helen Schretlen, who published her research on the Singer Collection in Loving Art, continued her investigation - this time focusing on Singer's artistic development. She sets his oeuvre within the context of Dutch, American and Norwegian art movements and casts new light on this insufficiently studied artist. He emerges as an independent spirit, who forged his own artistic path, with an impressive oeuvre and a substantial number of international exhibitions. Devotees of landscape painting can become acquainted with the wealth and variety of his work and discover that he came to appreciate the Hague and Laren Schools while still in America, and subsequently fostered a lifelong passion for the Norwegian landscape rendered in an American Impressionist style.
