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2011 · réf. 130581 — Stanford Calif: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University 2011. Softcover. As New. Brick wraps with b/w illustration French flaps. 151 pp. Profuse illustrations in color and b/w. Catalogue for an exhibition of the same name held November 9 2011 through February 26 2012. The more than 60 works includes oil paintings charcoal drawings and pen-and-watercolor sketches that convey the breadth and strength of Slinkard's short-lived artistic development. The Cantor Arts Center is the primary repository of paintings and sketches by the early 20th-century California artist Rex Slinkard 1887-1918 who died in the influenza epidemic of 1918 while serving in the military. During his brief life Slinkard emerged from his roots as a California rancher to become a painter who helped influence the modernist bent of the emerging California art scene. publisher's website. Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University paperback books