The Women of the Cornish Colony / The Women of the Cornish Colony, Part II (2 vols.)
Cornish, New Hampshire: Cornish Colony Gallery & Museum, [2003?]. Softcover. 2 vols. Black & color illus. stapled wraps, 38 + 34 pp., highly illustrated in BW & color. VG (Labels & few marks from previous gallery owner.). Item #142611
Issued in conjunction with several exhibitions focusing on the women who participated in the art colony of Cornish, New Hampshire. They include painters Louise Howland Cox, Maria Oakey Richards Dewing, Lucia Fairchild Fuller, Frances Lyons Houston, Edith Prellwitz, Carlotta Dolley Saint-Gaudens, Florence Scovel Shinn, Ellen Axon Wilson, and Marguerite Zorach; sculptors Frances Grimes, Laura Gardin Fraser, Elsie Ward Hering, Helen Farmsworth Mears, Anne Bogardus Parrish, Annetta St. Gaudens, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh; and writers Adeline Pond Adams, Frances Duncan, Maud Howe Elliott, Rose Standish Nichols, Lydia Austin Parrish, Louise Saunders, and Florence Scovel Shinn. Both books contain illustrated narratives about the colony and the artists. A terrific and rare set.
Price: $225.00