This new account of the Darby School of Art overturns Philadelphia's long-held unwarranted reputation as artistically stodgy - unwilling and unable to embrace Impressionism, post-Impressionist, and abstract art. Through the lens of the Darby School, a summer art school program that upended the area's long-held artistic traditions, author Mark W. Sullivan demonstrates that the Philadelphia are was far more avant-garde than originally thought"--