A Treasury of American Prints: A Selection of One Hundred Etchings and Lithographs by the Foremost Living American Artists.
by Thomas Craven
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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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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- NWJBOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005944
- Title
- A Treasury of American Prints: A Selection of One Hundred Etchings and Lithographs by the Foremost Living American Artists.
- Author
- Thomas Craven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- art; nonfiction
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