The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America
[A] clear-sighted survey of an area of art which is in danger of slipping into neglected obscurity. . . . This is another beautifully produced volume from Princeton. The illustrations are both handsome and informative in their own right. . . . I think this is an important book in that it brings to light a subject which can be seen as a genuine folk art within an industrialized society and which was in danger of disappearing completely. -- Ian Charnock, The Art Book