Dessins

1939 · réf. 053840 — New York Ny: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 168 Pp. Gray Cloth Lettered In Red. First Printing 1939. Near Fine. Inscribed Generically By The Author And With A Gift Inscription Under The Front Flap And With The Recipient's Bookplate On The Half Title Page. Book Very Near Fine. Dust Jacket With Wear And Browning A Few Very Short Edge Tears Minute Losses At Corners. Per Wikipediaabel Leigh Hunt 1892 - 1971 Was An American Writer Of Children's Books. Hunt Was Born In Coatesville Indiana To Quaker Parents. She Was Raised In Greencastle And From Age Ten Until Her Physician Father Died In Plainfield A Center Of Indiana Quaker Activity. She And Her Mother Then Lived In Indianapolis. Hunt Studied At Depauw University In Greencastle From 1910 To 1912 And Returned To School In 1923 For A Year At Western Reserve University Library School In Cleveland. From 1926 She Was A Librarian At The Indianapolis Public Library. Her First Book Was Published In 1934 Lucinda A Little Girl Of 1860 And In 1938 She Left Her Position To Write Full-Time. She Was One Of The Newbery Medal Runners-Up Twice For Have You Seen Tom Thumb In 1943 And For Better Known As Johnny Appleseed In 1951. Better Known As Johnny Appleseed Was Also Listed By The New York Herald-Tribune As One Of The Best Western Books Ever Written. Hunt Wrote Many Works On Quaker Themes Including Little Grey Gown 1939 The Double Birthday Present 1947; A 1959 Article On Quaker Children And Quaker-Related Children's Books For The Periodical You Are Called; Cupola House 1961; And Beggar's Daughter 1963. Her Papers Include A Personal Letter From Richard Nixon Who Had A Quaker Background Written In 1960 A Year When He Was Both Vice President And The Losing Candidate For President. Ilse Bischoff 1901-1990 Was An American Artist Book Illustrator And Author. Best Known For Her Skill In Woodblock Printing She Also Painted In Oils And Casein And Made Graphite Drawings. She Remained Firmly Committed To Representational Art Throughout Her Life Choosing Human Figures For Her Main Subjects During Most Of Career And Turning Toward Still Lifes Toward The End. She Illustrated Many Books Including Two Of Which She Was Author. Family Wealth Allowed Her To Pursue The Multiple Facets Of Her Career Free Of Worries About Critical Reception Or The Income That Her Work Would Bring Her. After Graduating From Horace Mann In 1919 She Consequently Enrolled In The New York School Of Applied Design For Women Where She Received Good Applied-Arts Training In How To Make Meticulously Accurate Drawings Of Flowers. In 1920 She Enrolled In The Parsons School Of Design Then Known As The New York School Of Fine And Applied Art Where She Primarily Studied Costume Design. Then Having Realized That She Would Prefer To Work In The Fine Arts She Enrolled In The Art Students League Where She Learned Illustration And Painting From Frank Dumond And Etching And Lithography From Joseph Pennell. While Studying In Munich Bischoff Had Learned Now To Make Woodblock Prints And In 1927 Won Top Prize In The First Annual Exhibition Of American Block Prints Held By The Philadelphia Print Club. A Year Later Bischoff Showed Block Prints And Drawings With Watercolor Washes In A Solo Exhibition At The Ferargil Galleries In New York. She Had Made Her First Book Illustrations The Previous Year And Included Some Of The Woodcuts From That Work In The Exhibition. In 1929 The Philadelphia Print Club Gave Her A Solo Exhibition. The Following Year John Sloan Selected A Piece By Bischoff For The "Fifty Prints Of The Year" Touring Exhibition Sponsored By The American Institute Of Graphic Arts. Throughout The 1930S Bischoff Continued To Show In Exhibitions Of Block Prints Assembled By The Philadelphia Print Club For The Brooklyn Museum. During These Years She Also Participated In Group Shows At The Salons Of America 1934 The National Academy 1945 The Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts 1937 And The Whitney Museum Of American Art 1937. See Wikipedia Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover