Description
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Published 1991. Paperback with French flaps, 107 pp.; 27 cm; color plates throughout (47 paintings by 43 artists); distributed by the University of Washington Press.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Gold card covers with gilt title and blind-embossed mountain device on front. Light rubbing and soiling to front cover; rear cover with white scuffs and scratches along the spine-side edge and a few small dark spots; light wear to edges and spine. Covers starting to separate from the glued text block along the top of the spine, still attached; text block sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Laid in: exhibition checklist, a single sheet folded into three panels, with the exhibition itinerary printed on the reverse. Catalog for a traveling exhibition of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century California painting from the Oakland collection of James L. Coran and Walter A. Nelson-Rees. On October 20, 1991, less than two months before the show opened at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, the Oakland hills fire destroyed the collectors' entire collection; the book documents 47 of the lost paintings that had been chosen for the exhibition. Each artist has a biography by Iona M. Chelette facing a color plate, among them Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, William Hahn, Theodore Wores, Gunnar Widforss, William Wendt, Granville Redmond, Gottardo Piazzoni and Lillie May Nicholson, with essays by Katherine Plake Hough and Will South on the grand landscape and genre traditions. The laid-in checklist lists the paintings shown on the five-venue tour (Palm Springs, Ventura, the Rockwell Museum in Corning, Shreveport and Oshkosh, 1991-1993), with lenders including the Oakland Museum and several galleries. Contents: Foreword (Fritz A. Frauchiger); Collectors' Comments (James L. Coran and Walter A. Nelson-Rees); Acknowledgments (Katherine Plake Hough); California Grandeur and Genre (Katherine Plake Hough); Distinctions Between Grandeur and Genre (Will South); Artists Biographies (Iona M. Chelette); Artists Index; Board of Trustees