EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY - Nos. 18-19. Summer 1951 a Guide to Well Designed Products

Torbert, Meg

Published by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1951

About this Item

64 pages; Minneapolis: Near Fine. 1951. First Edition. 64 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Based on the exhibition "Knife / Fork / Spoon" at the Walker Center prepared by Towle Silversmiths. Illustrated with b&w photographs throughout. A great aid for those trying to identify authentic examples. Former owner's last name discreetly in ink at top corner of front wrapper "Munsing. " From the collection of Stefan P. Munsing [1915-1994] who worked in New York City as a designer for Hans Knoll, Norman Bel Geddes and RCA. Munsing served in the Army in World War II, then as Chief of the Monuments, Fine-Arts & Archives Section in Munich. The MFAA was an Army unit locating stolen artworks which had disappeared into the huge Nazi hoards during the war. [The "Monuments Men"] Munsing later joined the U. S. Department of State during the later 1940's and '50's, where he established the State Department's Amerika Haus programs in Munich and Berlin and organized exhibitions and cultural programs in Germany and Austria. In 1955, he was named cultural officer at the American Embassy in London, where he staged exhibitions of such New York artists as Philip Pavia, Paul Jenkins and Ben Shahn and became an important force in the London art world. Munsing returned to the U. S. In the 1960's and 70's where he helped establish the contemporary art collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Washington (now the National Museum of American Art) and headed the State Department's Art in Embassies program. In retirement from the State Department after 1976, Mr. Munsing was a consultant to the American Association of Museums. .; Art and Art History, Decorative Arts, Most Recent Listing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY - Nos. 18-19. Summer 1951 a Guide to Well Designed Products
• Publisher: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Publication Date: 1951
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine