The Nude in Art
Softcover
1964 · Vancouver, British Columbia
by Simmins, Richard B.
Vancouver, British Columbia: The Vancouver Art Gallery, 1964. Softcover. Good. Clean/tight but with pen notation at very top margin of front cover; general shelf wear with some wrinkling.. White stapled wraps with bw illus. [32] with bw illus. throughout. Letter from Richard Simmins (Vancouver Art Gallery Director) to Gertrude Rosenthal, Chief Curator and Acting Director, The Baltimore Museum of Art, which had loaned two works for the exhibition. Catalogue from the exhibition of November 1964 of 140 works from the Western (from Etruscan through Durer, Cellinni, Boucher, Degas, Valadon, Brancusi, Rivers, to Baskin - and MANY others), Eastern (3 works), and Primitive Worlds (African, Melanesian, Micronesian, Polynesian, Salish). Foreword by Richard Simmins; brief paragraph introductions to each of the three sections; and annotations for each work. Where a specific artist is known, a brief bio is included. (Inventory #: 155598)