John Palmer Leeper Introduction (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. JULES PASCIN'S CARIBBEAN SKETCHBOOK, with introduction by John Palmer Leeper, 107 mainly B/W sketches with eight in color, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 1964. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. There is no bookplate or signature of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The tan cloth boards are in near fine condition (tiny bump of upper righthand corner). The dust jacket is in good condition (age-toning inside, tiny spots on front and back, white circle on front where price tag was affixed). 10 x 9, 184 pages, 26 ounces XX [From the dust jacket flaps] Jules Pascin (1885—1930) stands, like his friend Modigliani, in the great tradition of the romantic, bohemian artist. A charming, lavish host, Pascin was closely associated with the artists, musicians, and effervescent literati of the 1920's. The Bulgarian-born artist was a major figure in the School of Paris before coming to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. In the United States Pascin traveled extensively and was particularly drawn to the southern states and to the Caribbean islands. He recorded his travels in brilliant, instantaneous pencil sketches, sometimes touching them with delicate washes of color. Dispassionately he painted field workers and the picturesque citizens of a tropical land steaming in the sun, mules and wagons waiting in the shade of palm trees, yachts swinging in motionless harbors. These drawings Pascin assembled into two scrapbooks, regarding them highly himself. After his suicide in 1930 one scrapbook passed into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the second became a prized treasure of the Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute of San Antonio. The McNay Art Institute, with the University of Texas Press, here presents one hundred and seven exquisite drawings from the scrapbook, eight of them in color, the first extensive publication of drawings by one of the major draughtsmen of the twentieth century. While Pascin himself was relatively impervious to the influence of other artists, he exerted a striking influence on American art of the 1920's and 1930's. Kuniyoshi, Ganso, Brook, Dehn, Biddle, and others whom he met in the United States all bear the imprint of his style, which they have generously acknowledged, and even of the subject matter to which he drew their attention. He was, Francis Biddle wrote, intensely of our fluid, contemporary world, suffering from its aimlessness, a child of its tolerant skepticism, free from traditions, but also without roots or hardy and impassioned prejudices. Henry McBride wrote touchingly: I had the greatest admiration for Pascin. I never met him without feeling his superiority. He was completely the artist. It was so natural for him to be an artist that unconsciously he complimented everyone he met by assuming that they, too, were artists. It was partly due to this sweetness in his character that he exerted such a great influence upon his fellow painters, particularly here in America where we are not used to so entire a devotion to the arts, and where it is so difficult to be an artist. It was due to his essential integrity as an artist, I think, that he died. Pascin, Jules (illustrator).…

171pp. Illustrated in color and black and white of The Texas Pan-American Series Ex-library, else clean tight copy: VG/VG dj (dj in plastic, flaps scotch taped to endpapers).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** wear and rubbing marks to outside cover - No marks on text - My shelf location - k-16-a*.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Retrospective of Pascin's Caribean sketches. First edition, hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a VG dustjacket which has a few short closed tears and a couple of small chips.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 171 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, 171 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Black spine with light brown text. Head edge of text block dyed red. Dust jacket has slight tearing to spine edges, chipping to bottom corner of front cover, and mild shelf wear. Boards have faint foxing to covers. Textblock has spotting to head edge. Shelved Netdesk Column A [ND-A]. 1384097. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 92 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. *** Published in the year (1954) that the Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute opened its doors to the public. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-Very Good. Limited. Personal views of the Texas Hill Country from thirteen notable contemporary Texas artists. A limited 1st edition (433/1000) printed for the Wooden Star Corporation, signed by 12 of the 13 artists (all except Woody Gwyn) plus the authors of the introduction and forward. Some rubbing and creases to the edges of the DJ. A couple of tiny soil specks to teh FFEP. A very good copy. Kelly Fearing, Michael Frary, John Guerin, Woody Gwyn, William Hoey, William Lester, Ivan McDougal, Clay McGaughy, Ancel E Nunn, E M "Buck" Schiwetz, Emily Guthrie Smith, E Gordon West, Ralph White, (illustrator). …

paperback. Condition: Good. owner's name on front cover No dust jacket. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 171 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.