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Old Master Gallery Press, Published 1983. Paperback, viii, 172 pp.; 22 cm; First Edition; publisher's errata slip affixed to inside front cover.
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In Good condition. Pictorial paper covers reproduce Irion Shields' 1948 painting "Lobster Rocks," a view of Dana Point from San Clemente. Mild to moderate shelf wear with bumping and creasing to edges and corners, and some color loss along edges of spine. A 2 inch diagonal crease across upper front cover, with scattered foxing to the cream ground. Binding tight. Errata slip creased. Pages mildly toned. Otherwise unmarked. Korb assembled this as a pocket abstract of his own art library, and Norman Davies of the Old Master Gallery in Lawndale talked him into publishing it. It answers one question: is the artist listed, and where. Over fifty biographical directories and exhibition catalogs are indexed by artist, the Moure entries scored in tenths of a column so a user knows how much is actually there, with a Where? column naming the libraries that hold each source. Published three years before Edan Hughes' Artists in California 1786-1940 gave the field its standard dictionary, it still reaches what Hughes does not: exhibition catalogs, and the National Academy of Design and American Watercolor Society rolls. Printed directly from Korb's typescript to hold the price down. Contents: Publisher's Preface; Foreword; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Principal Reference Books; California - Moure: Dictionary of Art & Artists in Southern California Before 1930, Artist Clubs & Exhibitions in Los Angeles Before 1930, The California Watercolor Society Prize Winners 1931-1954, Southern California Artists 1890-1940, Painting & Sculpture in Los Angeles 1900-1945, Drawings & Illustrations by Southern California Artists Before 1950; California - McCall: California Artists 1935-1956; California - Other: California Design 1910, Art in California 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, WPA Murals in California, WPA Histories of California Artists, C.A. & A. Artist List 1932, California Art at the San Francisco World's Fair, Society of Western Artists Exhibition 1949, 40 California Painters Early 1950s, California Centennial Exhibition, Arts of Southern California Survey 1958, Painting & Sculpture SFAA 1958, Desert Center Artists 1965, Desert Center Artists 1970, Painters of Northern California, Yesterday's Monterey Artists, San Francisco City/County Art 1975, SF Hospital Medical Collection 1977, California Painters and Sculptors Modern, A Century of California Painting 1970, Baird Archive of California Art 1979, Sacramento Valley Landscapes 1979, Impressionism California 1890-1930, Plein Air Painters of California 1982, Virginia Steele Scott Collection 1980; Western - Samuels: Artists of the American West; Western - Dawdy: Artists of the American West Volumes 1 and 2; Western - Other: Western Americana (Harmsen), American Western Art (Harmsen), The West Remembered, Cumulative Index to Southwest Art, The Cowboy in Art (Ainsworth), The West as Art, Artists of the Canyons & Caminos, Fifty Great Western Illustrators, Woman Artist in the American West, 7th Annual Exhibition Cowboy Artists; USA - NAD: National Academy Membership; USA - AWS: American Watercolor Society Membership; USA - Other: Prize-Winning Painters 1960-1967, Artists/USA 1970-1975, Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (Cummings).