Modern Chromatics; Students' Text-Book of Color With Applications to Art and Industry

Rood, Ogden N.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; 257 pp; illustrated in bw and color. VG- (light shelfwear to boards; lightly age toned. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.). Item #187226
ISBN: 9780442270285

I: Ogden Nicholas Rood, his life / Ronald Rood -- Impressionism / Eugène Delacroix, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir -- Neo-Impressionism / Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, other Neo-Impressionist painters -- Fauvism -- Other influences / Charles Blanc, David Sutter, Charles Henry -- Rood's influence in America -- Technical evaluation : The problem of tritanopia -- I. Eugène Delacroiz, The massacre of Scio -- Claude Monet, Poplars of Giverny -- Camille Pissarro, River, Early morning -- Vincent van Gogh, A corner in the park -- Georges Seurat, Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte -- Georges Seurat, detail, LaGrande Jatte -- Paul Signac, Place de Lice, St. Tropez -- Frontispiece of modern chromatics -- II: The book, modern chromatics -- Commentary notes by Faber Birren -- III: Facsimile of modern chromatics, first American edition, 1879.