Painted Treasures is a collection of the best that decorative painting has to offer, with step-by-step painting instruction from 15 of today's most brilliant decorative artists, plus a gallery of 90 pieces selected from the Decorative Arts Collection for their meaningful contribution to the history of art in America. Readers will find the work from all of their favorite decorative painters in one place and will learn how this art form developed and changed over the years to what it is today. This book is not only for the diehard decorative painter, but for all those who love the decorative arts.