Description

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA [Published Date: 1991]. Soft cover, 100 pp. plus index. Catalog published to accompany a traveling exhibition that originated in Palm Springs in 1992. Features a collection of California landscape paintings, including many that were destroyed in the 1991 Oakland Hills fire. In good+ condition. Gold embossed paper covers with French flaps. light bumping and creasing to edges of covers and light overall scuffing with heavier scuffing on the back cover and a bit of the color scuffed off along the edges and spine. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Over 40 full color reproductions. Contents include: Foreword by Fritz A. Frauchiger; Collector Comments by James L. Coran and Walter A. Nelson-Rees; Acknowledgments by Katherine Plake Hough; California Grandeur and Genre by Katherine Plake Hough; Distinctions Between Grandeur and Genre by Will South; Artists Biographies by Iona M. Chelette; Artists Index;