"Potomac River School" is an illustrated text, with over 150 color illustrations of paintings by artists Mary Kokoski, Andrei Kushnir, and Barbara Nuss. It contains an introduction by Sharon Ann Holt, Exectutive Director, Sandy Spring Museum, Foreword by Hedrick Belin, President, Potomac Conservancy, Preface by Frederic Shuler Briggs, A.W.S., Schuler School of Fine Arts, and essay by Michele Martin Taylor, Curator pro tem, with notes about the artists' paintings.
After the unprecedented turmoil experienced in the 20th century, with ensuing artistic experiments of modernism, non-objectivism and other isms, the 21st century brings a return to the appreciation of enduring and permanent values in art. The Potomac River School, an original and indigenous school of American painters, is among the first to reestablish the direct relationship with Nature that will define the art of the new century.