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John Concha. A Pueblo. Taos New Mexico. 1915.

rif. 51-2451Taos New Mexico: 1915. Original color crayon drawing. Signed dated and titled in the image. Signed dated and titled on the support sheet. 12 x 9 inches.inches image size. Sound recordings from 1941 by John Concha entitled "Round Dance" and "Social dance song" are preserved by the Library of Congress. AFS 09534 B03 AFS Numberand AFS 09534 B04Provenance: Part of a portfolio of original works given to the collector Natalie Williams on June 1 1937 by Wall. Natalie Williams was the sister-in-law of the Texas collector N.C. Matthewson of Marshall Texas and both were owners of the Made-Rite Company. She was a patroness of artists and an art donor to Texas A & M University.Bernhardt Wall was born in Buffalo New York on Dec. 30 1872. He studied at the Buffalo Art Student’s League then moved on to study in New York under Henry Reuterdahl and also apprenticed under William Auerbach-Levy. Wall began a career as a lithographic illustrator in 1889 working primarily as a commercial artist in New York and Buffalo. He soon became known as the "Postcard King" and designed over 5000 comic cards. The year1915 marked a defining point in Wall’s artistic career. Wall visited Colorado Nevada and California making etchings of Indians cowboys and major cities which were later published in a portfolio entitled "Under Western Skies." These proved to be very successful and the artist shortly thereafter moved to California permanently. Wall continued to produce many fine etchings of the American West and by 1930 had also become a much respected historian of the region.Bernhardt Wall was unique in that he not only drew the etchings for his books but he also printed and bound them. His books are in libraries and universities around the world including the British Museum Library of Congress the libraries of Harvard Yale Columbia and Brown Universities. His works were also in the private collections of J. P. Morgan Franklin D. Roosevelt Henry C. Frick and Dr. N.C. Mathewson. Wall etched three sitting presidents of the United States Theodore Roosevelt Warren Taft and Henry Coolidge. Other prominent individuals etched by Wall include Sam Houston Mark Twain Thomas A. Edison Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson.Artist and historian Bernhardt Wall 1872-1956 was a pioneer etcher and producer of fine press books who treated a vast array of subjects including Texas and the Southwest. Historians of fine press printing have compared him to William Blake. This collection of Wall’s scrapbooks publications and correspondence was built by collector Natalie Williams of Marshall Texas. Taos, New Mexico: 1915 unknown

Alan Wofsy Fine Arts · Stati Uniti1300,00 USD≈ 1161,44 €

Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell (starring); Curtis Bernhardt (director); Francois Campaux (story); Norman Corwin (scBiblio.com

The Blue Veil Original screenplay for the 1951 film presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald

1951rif. 161406Los Angeles: RKO Studios Inc 1951. Revised Final Draft script for the 1951 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Eight reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages each with an RKO stamp on the versos and four with a mimeo snipe on the versos. Original wrapper bound in with the manuscript ink annotation of Wald's name on the top right as well as six pink revision pages of an "Optional Ending" following the script. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Remake of the 1942 French film "Le volle bleu" direced by Jean Stelli and starring Gaby Morlay and Elvire Popesco. Jane Wyman stars as a WWI war widow who after loosing her only child spends her life as a children's nurse. Bound in light green cloth with dark green quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page integral with title page with receipt removed dated April 9 1951 noted as REVISED FINAL SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Norman Corwin and story credit for Francois Campaux. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered "143-146." Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/23/51 and 5/25/51. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with light rubbing and edgewear. RKO Studios, Inc unknown