Description

Privately Published [Published Date: no date listed, circa 2000]. Soft cover, 65 pp. No other printings listed. In good+ condition. Glossy red illustrated paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. Pele deLappe (1916 - 2007) was an American artist, cartoonist, and social activist. This is a biography and retrospective of Pele deLappe's work and her involvement in the "Red Press." [From back cover] Pele deLappe, a fourth generation San Franciscan, was raised in the milieu of art, both commercial and "fine." Her father, a noted advertising illustrator, decided she should attend art school at age 14. She became a graphic artist and political cartoonist for radical publications, later a feature editor for the "People's World" while struggling to find her own identity as an artists, out from under powerful male influences. After decades of work in a commercial printing plant and for the PW in Berkeley she left city life in 1992, following her heart - namely fine artist Byron Randall - to Petaluma, California.