Forty Seven Fac-Simile Drawings by American Artists
New York: National Arts Club, [1918]. Hardbound. Cardboard portfolio with ties and tipped-on facsimile of woman's head. 50 leaves inside (contents, 46 (of 47 called for images), 1 duplicate image, one uncalled-for image, and reproduction of written text by Pennell). Portfolio case is worn, chipped and tattered. Contents generally VG with age toning. Item #107391
"This unique collection of drawings was contributed to the "American Artist's War Emergency Fund" by forty-seven American artists to be disposed of for the benefit of this fund." Second leaf is a lithograph of a handwritten brief essay on lithography by Joseph Pennell. 37th drawing in the portfolio is also by Pennell. This copy has two copies of a contribution by Henry Walker, and lacks the contribution listed for Ben Foster. There is, however, an unlisted contribution by G.H. Buer that is printed on a smaller sized sheet than the rest. Those artists represented in this set include Hugo Ballin, Cecilia Beaux, Edwin Blashfield, Ernest Blumenshein, George De Forest Brush, [G.H. Buer], Howard Russell Butler, Ercole Cartotto, Frederick S. Church, B.West Clinedinest, Colin Campbell Cooper, E. Irving Couse, Kenyon Cox, Charles C. Curran, Eliott Daingerfield, Paul Dougherty, [Ben Foster - lacking], Daniel Garber, Charles Dana Gibson, Philip Leslie Hale, Childe Hassam, Ernest Ipsen, Francis C. Jones, Hugh Bolton Jones, Arthur I. Keller, Paul King, Ella Conde Lamb, William H. Lippincott, Will H. Low, Clara Mac Chesney, F. Luis Mora, H. Siddons Mowbray, Ivan G. Olinsky, Violet Oakley, Maxfield Parrish, William Macgregor Paxton, Henry W. Parton, Joseph Pennell, Edward H. Potthast, William Ritschel, Henry B. Snell, Gardner Symons, C.Y. Turner, Douglas Volk, Henry O. Walker (2 copies), Harry W. Watrous, J. Alden Weir and Irving R. Wiles. An extraordinarily rare item.
Price: $400.00