Painting America: Mural Art in the New Deal Era
New York: Midtown Galleries, 1988. Softcover. Gray wraps. 39 pp. 16 color, 50 bw plates. VG (may have mild edgewear and fading/creasing/rippling to covers, one copy has some prices in crayon (?), otherwise clean). Item #5001
Introductory essay written by Janet Marqusee. Catalogue lists 80 preparatory studies, almost all of which were for sale. Artists whose works are represented in this catalogue include James Daugherty (5), Paul Cadmus, William C. Palmer, Balcomb Greene, Mitchell Siporin, Judson Smith, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Clarence Holbrook Carter, Jenne Magafan, Ethel Magafan, Robert Lepper, Emil Bitstram, Reginald Marsh, Alfred Crimi, Marion Greenwood, Andrew Karoly & Louis P. Szantos, Thomas Hart Benton, George Pickin, Rockwell Kent, Simka Simkhovitch, Fred Shane, Ernest Halberstadt, Ben Shahn, Saul Levine, Arnold Blanch, Lewis Rubenstein, Isabel Bishop, Edward Laning, Anatol Shulkin, Sarah Blakeslee, Francis Speight, Louis Schanker, Paul Meltsner, Bernard Gussow, Stuyvesant Van Veen, Hanariah Harari, Michael Lenson, Philip Reisman, Harry Sternberg. These artists are also mentioned, but their works are not illustrated: Mervin Jules, Theresa Bertstein, James Penney, A. Raymond Katz, Mervin JulesSuggested reading list at end. Price list laid-in. Published in conjunction with Janet Marqusee Fine Arts, and to accompany an exhibition held at Midtown Galleries, NY: Mar. 2 to Apr. 9, 1988.
OCLC: 22360559
Price: $20.00