Some American Primitives: A Study of New England Faces and Folk Painters

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1941

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Tan cloth. xix, 292 pp. 112 bw repros. A classic treatise by visionary collector and preservationist Clara Endicott Sears (1864-1960), the well-respected creator of the museums at Fruitlands in Harvard, Massachusetts. Nine chapters consider approx. 40 American primitive painters whose work included portraits. Includes some women painters. Told in Clara's folksy narrative style. Bibliography and appendix of misc. information are useful to those who are researching or collecting. Scarce. VG-: Wear to the cloth. Book plate on front pasted end page. Stamp on bottom textblock.

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Title
Some American Primitives: A Study of New England Faces and Folk Painters
Author
Sears, Clara Endicott
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Publication year
1941
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First edition.
Seller catalogs
American Art, General Art - American

Mullen Books, ABAA

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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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