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Billboard Publishing Company, Published 1966. Wraps, 94 pp. plus 16-page 11th Annual Buyer's Guide of Art Materials at rear; 30 cm; single-issue magazine; illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color; cover landscape drawing by William Caxton, Jr.
In Acceptable condition. Yellow illustrated paper covers with moderate shelf wear, creasing, and small chips along edges and at corners. Roughly 2 inch square of paper missing from upper corner of rear cover where the mailing label was torn away, with matching loss to the final Buyer's Guide leaf; rear cover split from the text block for 3 inches from head of spine. Bound-in advertising reply cards present. Pages toned. Otherwise unmarked. First issue of the magazine's thirtieth volume, with an editorial on the 290 numbers since April 1937. Margarita Walker Dulac's "Ivan Albright, Mystic-Realist" (pp. 32-37) draws on her acquaintance with the Chicago painter since the 1933 Grant Park Art Fair, with reproductions courtesy the Art Institute of Chicago: Into the World Came a Soul Called Ida, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, Poor Room, The Lineman, Among Those Left, The Rosicrucian, and the 1933 self-portrait. John Jellico's "The Drawings of Franklin Booth" (pp. 42-46) recalls his teacher at the Phoenix Art Institute with large reproductions of the pen drawings. Also: Joan Hess Michel on the costume designer Lewis Brown (NBC opera, Walker Art Center); C. Robert Perrin's rug-collage mural of the Old Wharf, Nantucket; Richard Reynolds's buffalo sculpture; Edgar A. Whitney's watercolor page on scraping with credit cards; Sidney Hurwitz on the white-ground etchings of Ron Kowalke, with a step-by-step demonstration; Frank Hanley's pen drawings of Greenwich Village houses; Ralph Mayer's technical page; book reviews, museum calendar, and the 16-page buyer's guide listing more than 400 art-materials suppliers with addresses.