Eight Summers at Bonnie Oaks: A Treatise on Art and Art Appreciation

"Eight Summers at Bonnie Oaks - A Treatise on Art and Art Appreciation" by Mary Cox Florine. 1937; Educator Supply Company; Mitchell, South Dakota. The book contains color plates and black & white illustrations throughout. Here are a few examples of the contents: Illustrating Stories; Making an Easel; Modeling; Study of Cloth and Clothes; Indian Symbols; Horizon Line; Movement in Design; Soap Carving; Colonial Costumes; Pottery Making; Fine China; Circular Perspective; Making a Booklet; Eye-Level; Experiments in Color; Angular and Oblique Perspective...and much more. From the Preface: "The object of this book is to aid the teaching of art in the eight grades through the medium of a story. It is an art course which is designed to follow closely the course of art study in use in the schools of South Dakota. Some of the significant features of the book are the profuse illustrations which exemplify the points discussed, the professional presentation of art problems, and the introduction of an immense amount of material required for the units of study that the busy teacher has not the time to prepare nor the books from which the information may be gathered. The book aim is to develop an appreciation of man's efforts to leave the world better and more beautiful than he found it, and an individual desire to aid in this task, if not in producing masterpieces of art, at least in the ability to select more beautiful things and increase the joy of living." Condition: Clean front cover and spine; small stain spot at the bottom-right corner of the back cover. Sharp cover corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The gilt lettering on the spine has partially faded. Nice interior - the text pages are clean and white with only a small tear at the bottom edge of page 311; pages 305-310 have creased lower-outer corners. "4377" and "1940" written in pen at the top edge of the front pastedown. Overall the book is in Very Good+ condition.