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McCormick Gallery and Vincent Vallarino Fine Art, Published 2014. Wraps, 56 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated chiefly in color.
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In very good condition. Illustrated paper covers show mild shelf and edge wear. Scored hinges along spine edges of both covers are as issued, not creases. Perfect bound and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. John Little (1907-1984) was born on an Alabama farm, studied under Hans Hofmann from 1937, and settled in East Hampton, where Lee Krasner drove him out to see the Duck Creek Farm he would spend years restoring. Four decades of work, from 1939 ink drawings through the heavily worked oils of the 1950s to silkscreens of the 1970s. Tom McCormick's essay, revised from the sold-out 2008 Cascading Forms catalogue, follows Little from the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy through the textile and wallpaper design studio that paid for his painting, to his part in founding the Signa Gallery, East Hampton's first outlet for progressive work. Little's own notes on the picture plane run alongside. With a chronology and lists of solo and group exhibitions.