Review Essay: Art Museums, Patronage, and the Transformation of Culture in the Nineteenth Century: WENDY JEAN KATZ, Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formationin Antebellum Cincinnati. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2002, pp. xx, 264, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $47.95 cloth. NICK PRIOR, Museums & Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture. Oxford: Berg [distributed by NYU Press], 2002, pp. xii, 258, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $68.00 cloth, $22.00 paper

Two books are analyzed: Wendy Jean Katz's Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati; and Nick Prior's Museums and Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture.