A Gallery of California Mission Paintings
by Deakin, Edwin
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1966, Los Angeles, 1966.. Good/Good. Oblong quarto, hardcover, VG ex school library in near fine pictorial dj in mylar. 59 pages, with 21 full-page color plates of California Mission paintings by Edwin Deakin (each framable) and accompanying historical information on each mission. Contents also include "California's Twenty-One Franciscan Missions" by Donald C. Cutter and "Edwin Deakin: 1938-1923" by Paul Mills. edited by Ruth I. Mahood. Edwin Deakin's work is outstanding. Deakin presents the missions in a romantic image, uniquely characteristic of the California scene. Painted on large canvases they reveal structural detain in almost minute exactness. the canvases were painted in the late nineteenth century when many of themissions had fallen into ruin and badly needed repair and restoration. Deakin 'restored' the missions for his viewers by his careful research and study..
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34986
- Title
- A Gallery of California Mission Paintings
- Author
- Deakin, Edwin
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1966, Los Angeles, 1966.
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