The book is a catalog from an exhibition held at the National Museum of American Art in 1988. It features texts by authors such as M. Foresta, S. C. Foster, B. Kluver, J. Martin, F. Naumann, S. S. Phillips, R. Shattuck, and E. Hutton Turner. The catalog includes 271 illustrations in both black and white and color, as well as a bibliography, and an index of names and works cited. The book is bound in cloth with a dust jacket and comprises 348 pages of content.
