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A Treasury of American Prints: A Selection of One Hundred Etchings and Lithographs by the Foremost Living American Artists
by Craven, Thomas (editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG (metal spirals slightly rusting inside; light shelfwear to boards. Pages have light tanning, otherwise very clean and clear.)
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. Hardcover. VG (metal spirals slightly rusting inside; light shelfwear to boards. Pages have light tanning, otherwise very clean and clear.). Green paper boards with black cloth spine, metal spiral bound interior. 218 pp. numerous bw plates. A classic sampling of American prints, presented in a format convenient for detaching individual selections. With an introduction by Thomas Craven. The artists appearing in this favorite are: Peggy Bacon (5), Thomas Benton (5), Isabel Bishop (2), Arnold Blanch (2), Aaron Bohrod, Alexander Brook (2), Andrew Butler (2), Paul Cadmus (2), Francis Chapin, Paul Lewis Clemens, Howard Cook, John Corbino, John E. Costigan (3), John Steuart Curry (5), Adolf Dehn (4), Mabel Dwight, Ernest Fiene, Lauren Ford (3), Don Freeman, Wanda Gag (2), Emil Ganso, Minnetta Good, William Gropper (3), George Grosz (3), William Heaslip, Albert Heckman, Eugene Higgins, Irwin D. Hoffman, Edward Hopper (2), Joe Jones, Yasuo Kuniyoshi (2), Doris Lee, Charles Locke, Luigi Lucioni, John Marin, Reginald Marsh (6), John S. de Martelly (2), Kenneth Hayes Miller, Thomas W. Nason, Waldo Peirce (2), Boardman Robinson, Charles Sheeler, John Sloan (5), Raphael Soyer, Lee Townsend, Stow Wengenroth, Harry Wickey (3), Grant Wood (6) and Mahonri Young (2). Nice!
Synopsis
This book contains reproductions of one hundred of the finest contemporary American etchings and lithographs. The[y]... represent forty-nine of America's greatest living artists - including Benton, Wood, Marsh, Curry, Grosz, Costigan, Cadmus, Beal, Sloan, Sterner... Bacon - in short, every figure of stature representing every school in the current scene... [I]ncisive descriptions give not only critical interpretations of the backgrounds and moods of the pictures, but reveal as well the purposes and working methods of each individual artist.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5204
- Title
- A Treasury of American Prints: A Selection of One Hundred Etchings and Lithographs by the Foremost Living American Artists
- Author
- Craven, Thomas (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG (metal spirals slightly rusting inside; light shelfwear to boards. Pages have light tanning, otherwise very clean and clear.)
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Art; 20th Century; Prints; 19th Century ; American Prints ; 20th Century ; Prints
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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