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The Raymer Society / Red Barn Studio, Published 1998. Hardcover, 201 pp.; 29 cm, oversize quarto; illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white reproductions of paintings, woodcuts, prints, and the artist's Christmas toys, plus archival photographs.
In Very Good condition, no jacket as issued. Glossy pictorial boards reproducing Raymer's painting of a drummer boy (Untitled, oil on board, 1962); mild shelf wear and edge wear. Binding tight. Interior clean. Otherwise unmarked. Biography and retrospective of Kansas artist Lester Raymer (1907-1991), the painter, printmaker, metalworker, and toymaker at the center of the Lindsborg art colony and his own Red Barn Studio. Six essays by Bruce R. Kahler, Diane Thomas Lincoln, Lan Nelson, Carla Scott, and Don Weddle survey his life, his place in the Lindsborg community around Birger Sandzen, his religious and spiritual imagery, his work across media, and the handmade Christmas toys he created for his wife Ramona each year from 1960 onward. Contents: The Life and Times of Lester Raymer; Lester Raymer and his Art World (Bruce R. Kahler); Lester Raymer, Pilgrim Artist (Diane Thomas Lincoln); Themes and Variations: Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations and Prints (Don Weddle); The Christmas Toys (Lan Nelson); Transformations (Carla Scott); Acknowledgments, Author Biographies, Bibliographies and Notes.