1980s American Folk Portraits Book

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American Folk Portraits, edited by Beatrix T. Rumford. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1981. First printing. With 97 color … more American Folk Portraits, edited by Beatrix T. Rumford. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1981. First printing. With 97 color and 240 black-and-white illustrations. A study of the collection in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, an unparalleled treasury of early colonial painting. 298 portraits are examined, studying the immense contribution the primitive stylists of the time were to make to the progress of art, as it begins to approach the modern. 300 pp. less