Description

The Artist Publishing Corporation, Published 1968. Wraps, 28 pp.; 25 cm; illustrated with color plates and black-and-white reproductions throughout. In Good+ condition. Staple bound, binding tight. Yellow covers, front illustrated with Keith Shackleton's "Masai," rear with his "Crowned Cranes." Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf wear and light soiling to both covers. Small ink stamp (monogram in a triangle) on front cover beside date. Pages clean and unmarked. Autumn 1968 issue of the quarterly journal of the Fine Art Trade Guild, incorporating Art Bulletin and the Guild's quarterly list of Approved Publications. US issue, priced 75 cents. Articles on Kenwood House, Constable and Hobbema, Mary Cassatt, Henry Moore's seventieth-birthday retrospective at the Tate, Gustav Klimt reproductions from Verlag Galerie Welz, and medieval manuscript illumination (Luttrell Psalter, Westminster Abbey Psalter). Also includes "How Much?", an essay on artists and money by cartoonist H. M. Bateman (1887-1970), written in his last years, when he was in a long dispute with the Inland Revenue. Trade advertisements from the Medici Society, Royle, Alfred Schiftan and Magnolia Mouldings. Contents: Mansion in Hampstead by Cecily Lambert; Constable and Dutch Realism by R.D.C.; Mary Cassatt by A. M. Collis; One Picture to Live With by Robert Huntley; Tribute to Henry Moore by A.R.; Gustav Klimt; The Scribe as an Artist by J. N. McGurk; How Much? by H. M. Bateman. Colour: Dedham Lock and Mill by John Constable; Woody Landscape with a Watermill by Meindert Hobbema; The Little Sisters by Mary Cassatt; The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci; Pink and Green Sleepers, Two Women Seated, and Reclining Figure with a Landscape by Henry Moore; Woman Combing her Hair by Slewinski; A View of the Thames by Oskar Kokoschka.