Description
Compass Publishing, Savannah, Georgia [Published date: 2014]. Hardcover, 191 pp; illustrated throughout with full-color reproductions of paintings; 26 cm. First edition. Includes index.
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In very good condition with very good dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with blind-stamped title on front and gilt lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light bumping and creasing to edges and light overall scuffing; not price clipped; now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. [From front jacket flap] Few artists' work reflects their life philosophies and personalities as directly and intimately as the paintings of nationally recognized impressionist Ray Ellis. Told through accounts of his life and demonstrated by his paintings-each accompanied by his explanations of approach and technique-Painting a Life creates a visual biography. Readers are invited into his mindset and informed of the ways in which he translated both good and bad times into color, design, and composition. Includes a foreword by David McCullough and commentary by Ray Ellis. Chapters cover his career chronologically: Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Overall Design: A Brief History; The Layout, 1930s to the Early 1940s; Sketches, 1940s and the 1950s; Life Drawing, 1960s and the 1970s; Restoration, 1980s; Perspective, 1990s to 2013; Afterword; List of Illustrations; Index.