Description
Caskey-Lees, Published 1990. Paperback, 108, [16] pp., the last sixteen pages unnumbered gallery advertisements; 28 cm; illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Glossy pictorial covers show mild shelf wear with light bumping to edges and corners. Fine surface scratching to both panels and mild rubbing along top and bottom edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Proceeds benefited the Santa Monica Museum of Art, then five years old and occupying a bow-trussed warehouse at 2437 Main Street: built for the Imperial Ice Company in 1908, converted to egg processing by Edgemar Farms in 1940, rebuilt by Frank Gehry as part of the Edgemar development in 1988. The museum moved to Bergamot Station in 1998 and became the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2017. Features three essays: the Los Angeles primitive painters of the late 1940s and early 1950s by Nancy Moure; California cartography by William Talbot, illustrating a Ruscelli of 1561 and a Wytfliet of 1597; and the Dallas Nine and Texas Regionalism by David Dike. Sixty exhibiting galleries follow, each with an illustrated page and full address, among them Zaplin-Lampert, William A. Karges, Goldfield, Redfern and Trotter. Contents: Acknowledgements; The California Primitives of Albert Kramer by Nancy Moure; Terra Incognita: The Mapping of California by William Talbot; The Birth of Texas Regionalism by David Dike; Exhibitors' Advertisements; Santa Monica Museum of Art: New Ideas for An Old Space; Floor Plan; Index.