Thomas E. Mails (Exhibition Catalogue, Inscribed and Signed with an Original Drawing)

Language: English

Published by Regency Galleries, 1976

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Regency Galleries, [No date: circa 1976]. Wraps, 47 pp.; 22 x 23 cm; illustrated with color and black-and-white reproductions of paintings and drawings by Mails, and black-and-white photographs of the artist. Produced by San Diego Museum of Man, with essays by Kathleen Whitaker (Curator) and Mary Dawe (Exhibits Department). In Acceptable+ condition. Original full-page drawing by Mails in red ink on inside front cover, Plains figure in profile with feather headdress and pipe, inscribed to two first-name recipients, signed "Tom" and "T.E. Mails" and dated 3-7-87. Illustrated paper covers, The Butterfly Dancers at Puye to front, blank cream rear cover; light bumping to edges and corners, mild shelf wear, scattered small specks and faint rub marks on rear cover. Glued binding brittle, cracked and split; pp. 37-42 separated and laid in. Pages otherwise unmarked. Catalogue issued with the one-man showing of 50 oils and 50 drawings by Mails at the San Diego Museum of Man, beginning August 1976, in conjunction with the Museum's Plains exhibition They Called Themselves the People. Mails, pastor of a Lutheran church in Pomona, California, was author and illustrator of The Mystic Warriors of the Plains and The People Called Apache. Reproductions are captioned with medium, size and source, and come from three books then in preparation: Good Spirits and a Green Earth, Fools Crow and Sun Dancing at Rosebud. Subjects include Pueblo and Hopi ceremonial dances, the Teton Sioux ceremonial chief Frank Fools Crow, and the Sioux Sun Dance. Whitaker's essay quotes Mails on his methods, pigments and work with Sioux and Apache holy men. Dawe's essay describes Plains life through the seasons, with Mails's drawings.…

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Title
Thomas E. Mails (Exhibition Catalogue, Inscribed and Signed with an Original Drawing)
Author
Thomas E. Mails; Kathleen Whitaker; Mary Dawe
Publisher
Regency Galleries
Publication year
1976
Condition
Acceptable
Signed
Signed by Author
Binding
Wraps
Language
English
Dimensions
22 x 23 cm
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