Art in America was written for The English Review in 1913, this essay perhaps says more about Crowley than American art. It was much criticised by contemporary American artists for its prejudice and unfairness. Crowley says in The Confessions that his judgements of past American art was severe, but that he had planned other, more positive essays dealing with the present and its future. The essays lasting value is largely historical, how differently things have come to look in the intervening one hundred years.