American Scene Painting: California, 1930s and 1940s

Language: English

Published by Westphal Publishing, Irvine, Calif, 1991

0961052031 / 9780961052034

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Crimson cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, maroon & color illus. dust jacket, 238 pp., "Concentrates on California's contribution to that era of American art. Both in Northern and Southern California the work that gained the majority of critical acclaim and drew national attention was overwhelmingly in the medium of watercolor, which is therefore the emphasis here. Twenty-five of the leading painters of the period are profiled in richly illustrated individual sections, and four essays by the nation's leading authorities on thie genre explore the phenomenon and place it in a national context." (dj) Beautiful. Contents as follows: Works illustrated -- The metamorphosis of California landscape art / Rexford E. Brandt -- Dream and perspective: American scene painting in Southern California / Susan M. Anderson -- California watercolor painters in context / Donelson Hoopes -- California Water Color Society: genesis of an American style / Janet Blake Dominik -- Artists -- Southern California -- The northern scene / Raymond L. Wilson -- Artists -- Northern California. VG (Few marks from previous gallery owner; a few tiny tears on dj.).…

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Title
American Scene Painting: California, 1930s and 1940s
Author
Westphal, Ruth Lilly and Janet Blake Dominik (editors)
Publisher
Westphal Publishing, Irvine, Calif
Publication year
1991
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0961052031
ISBN 13
9780961052034
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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.…

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