Joseph deCamp was one of America's finest painters. Throughout his career he experimented with, and mastered, many techniques, constantly searching for new ways to express his artistic skills. The artist's first leanings were towards landscape painting, yet it is a tragic irony that so few of his landscapes survive, some hundred paintings were destroyed by fire when he was 46. This tragedy was compounded in later years by ill health, which reduced his output. This first authoritative monograph on one of the key figures in American art history not only retells the story of DeCamp's varied life, but also examines his seemingly limitless experimentation troughout his career and dicusses his meticulous skills as a draftsman.