Imaging Whitman: the nineteenth century. The "gathering of the forces" in Brooklyn -- Masks, identity, and representation -- Visual self-fashioning and artistic (re)assessment -- Reception and representation in the 1880s -- Thomas Eakins and the "solitary singer" -- Whitman and the modernists: the twentieth century. Marsden Hartley's masculine landscapes -- Robert Coady and The soil -- Joseph Stella's Brooklyn Bridge