Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition

San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / University of California Press, 2015. First Paperback. Hardcover. VG+/VG+ contents but with light shelf wear to covers. Color-illus. card wraps with dark turquoise lettering; French flaps. 400 pp. with 172 color and bw plates and 172 color and bw figures. Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco from October 2015 through January 2016. "One hundred years ago, San Francisco hosted a spectacular world's fair. The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) drew millions of visitors, and its attractions included the most comprehensive art exhibition ever mounted on the West Coast. A century later, masterpieces representing a significant array of art shown at the PPIE, from Impressionism to Futurism, are reunited in this gorgeous and definitive catalogue. Filled with lavish reproductions and historical photographs - some being published for the first time - Jewel City is indispensible for understanding the role played by the United States and California in the reception of modernism, as well as the Bay Area's significant place on the international stage." - from the front flap.