The First Hundred Years of Painting in California, 1775-1875

by Van Nostrand, Jeanne

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Bookseller: Argonaut Book Shop
Seller Inventory #: 5352
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Howell-Books
Place: San Francisco
Date published: 1980

Book Description

San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1980 First edition. Limited to 2,500 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. With Biographical Information and References Relating to the Artists. Foreword by Alfred Frankenstein. Quarto. 135pp. 40 full-page plates (32 in color). Gilt-lettered blue cloth. Slight rubbing to spine ends. A fine copy (lacking dust jacket). Covers painting in Hispanic California, painting in California during the Conquest (1846-1848), painting in El Dorado (Gold Rush period), and California painting (1860-1875), A handsome book and a necessary reference..

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