Description
Gurari Collections, 2002. Wraps, [36] pp.; 21 x 24 cm (oblong); 25 numbered plates of sepia and blue-ground watercolors, with cover and back cover images; printed in Italy.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Cream textured illustrated paper covers with French flaps, glued binding; front cover reproducing Artin's "Palatino from Aventino" in sepia with title lettering, rear cover with "Decumanus Maximus, Ostia Antica." Mild shelf and edge wear with some soiling to rear cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Exhibition catalogue for Wendy Artin's show of watercolors of ancient Rome at Gurari Collections, Boston, in November 2002. The 25 plates, painted 1998-2002, include the Roman Forum, Trajan's Market, the Circus Maximus, the Temple of Venus Genetrix, the Theatre of Marcellus and Piazza Venezia, in sepia on handmade cotton, jute and Ingres papers and in darker tones on blue Amalfi paper. Includes a one-page statement by the artist dated September 2002 on learning to paint the city, a catalogue of works with titles, dates, media and dimensions, and a list of her exhibitions and education. Artin, a Boston-born painter based in Rome, later illustrated the Arion Press edition of Seamus Heaney's "Stone from Delphi" (2012) and received the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art's Arthur Ross Award in 2023.