Epilonian Books

Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997

Catalog notes

Description

American Arts Media, Inc., Leawood, Kansas, Published 1996. Wraps, 160 pp.; 28 cm; profusely illustrated in full color throughout. ISSN 0092-1327. Issue number 48 of the journal. Cover image: Rembrandt Peale, "Portrait of Rosalba Peale" (c. 1820, oil on canvas, 20 x 14 in., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution). The cover artist is also a feature subject of the issue (see Peale Legacy article below).

Condition & notes

In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial wraps with light bumping to edges and mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.Edited and published by Thomas R. Kellaway with senior editors William H. Gerdts and William I. Homer. Indexed in Bibliography of the History of Art.Feature articles: "Frank W. Benson: His Sporting Art" by Faith Andrews Bedford (Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, Salisbury, Maryland); "American Works on Paper, From a Private Collection" by Charles Price (Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut); "African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965" by Kinshasha Holman Conwill (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas); "American Art 1940-1965: Traditions Reconsidered" by Beth Venn (San Jose Museum of Art, California); "A Painter's Paradise: Artists and the California Landscape" by William H. Gerdts (Santa Barbara Museum of Art); "Drawing the Future: Design Drawings from the 1939 New York World's Fair" by Norman Brosterman (Museum of the City of New York); "American Naive Paintings, From the National Gallery of Art" (Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville); "The Peale Legacy: The Art of an American Family, 1770-1870" by Lillian B. Miller (Philadelphia Museum of Art); and "Twenty Years of Art, At the Federal Reserve Board" by Mary Anne Goley.