Description
McCormick Gallery and Vallarino Fine Art, Published 2013. Wraps, 41, [2] pp., the last two pages unnumbered chronology and colophon; 28 cm; chiefly color illustrations, with black-and-white photographs of the artist.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Illustrated paper covers show mild shelf and edge wear. Sewn signatures with glued covers, tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Norman Kanter (1926-2010) was born in Charleston, West Virginia, studied at UC Berkeley under Esteban Vicente, and painted from a Chambers Street loft in New York for fifty years. Abstract paintings and pastels of roughly 1953 to 1960, published after Kanter's estate came to gallery representation. Tom McCormick's introduction recounts how that happened: a stranger at the 2012 Los Angeles Art Fair mentioned his late uncle's canvases sitting in storage, and the dealers drove out to see them the next day. Kanter's own account of the period follows, reproduced from a typed curriculum vitae he prepared in the late 1990s, alongside his 1956 passport photograph. With a chronology of studies, awards, teaching and exhibitions.