The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson

E-194: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good. 1989. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 1989. 270 pgs. Illustrated with 118 black and white plates + 6 additional BW illustrations. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's gift inscription present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Although known primarily for his illustrations, murals, and portraits, Charles Banks Wilson things of himself chiefly as a lithographer. "Lithography," he says, "is what made an artist of me." The 118 lithographs collected here, each reproduced from an original print in the artist’s own collection, represent fifty years of experience in the medium. True to the American regionalist tradition that influenced him, Wilson has used his own surroundings as subject matter, producing an intensely personal record of his own time and place-an Oklahoma of varied landscapes and of farmers, cowboys, miners, and Indians. EB; 9 X 1.17 X 12 inches; 280 pages .