Author: CARMER, CARL
Title: The Susquehanna
Description: New York, NY: Rinehart & Company, 1955. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stow Wengenroth. B&W Illustrations; First Edition, with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning toning to the spine ends and very edges of the covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a thin strip of toning to the foredges of both front and rear endpapers. "Stow Wengenroth (1906–1978) was an American artist and lithographer, born in 1906 in Brooklyn, New York. Wengenroth was once called "America's greatest living artist working in black and white" by the American realist painter Andrew Wyeth, and he is generally considered to be one of the finest American lithographers of the twentieth century. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under George Bridgman and John Fabian Carlson from 1923 to 1927, then at the Grand Central School of Art under Wayman Adams. Wengenroth was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (renamed the American Academy of Arts and Letters) in 1942 and was also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Prairie Printmakers. He was elected an Associate of the prestigious National Academy of Design in 1938, and a full Academician in 1941. Wengenroth was also the author of several influential books on lithography. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Americana Carl Carmer Stow Wengenroth Rivers Of America Series American History The Susquehanna River WPA
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Title: The Susquehanna
Description: New York, NY: Rinehart & Company, 1955. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stow Wengenroth. B&W Illustrations; First Edition, with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning toning to the spine ends and very edges of the covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a thin strip of toning to the foredges of both front and rear endpapers. "Stow Wengenroth (1906–1978) was an American artist and lithographer, born in 1906 in Brooklyn, New York. Wengenroth was once called "America's greatest living artist working in black and white" by the American realist painter Andrew Wyeth, and he is generally considered to be one of the finest American lithographers of the twentieth century. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under George Bridgman and John Fabian Carlson from 1923 to 1927, then at the Grand Central School of Art under Wayman Adams. Wengenroth was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (renamed the American Academy of Arts and Letters) in 1942 and was also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Prairie Printmakers. He was elected an Associate of the prestigious National Academy of Design in 1938, and a full Academician in 1941. Wengenroth was also the author of several influential books on lithography. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Americana Carl Carmer Stow Wengenroth Rivers Of America Series American History The Susquehanna River WPA
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45558
- Book number: 45558
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