1940s Illustrated Quarto, William Sidney Mount 1807-1868: An American Painter, Presentation Copy - 1 Book

Description

[Mount, William Sidney, Jr.] Cowdrey, Bartlett and Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. William Sidney Mount 1807-1868: An American Painter.

New York: … more [Mount, William Sidney, Jr.] Cowdrey, Bartlett and Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. William Sidney Mount 1807-1868: An American Painter.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1944, first edition, presentation copy, xiii, 54 pp. Red cloth boards, more than 150 of the artist's genre and landscape paintings, and seventy-eight reproductions. Matte black and white illustrated dust jacket with handling wear; tears, chip and loss at upper edge, mylar cover. Fine in a fair dust jacket.

The first book to be devoted to his work, contains a biographical and critical essay. "...Catalogue features an index to mid-19th-century taste provided by the excerpts from contemporary criticism that accompany the entries" (Chase). (DJ) less