Hardcover
1993 · Columbia, Missouri
by Morse, Samuel F.B.
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1993. Hardcover. VG-/VG- clean, tight copy; former owner's name on ffep (Boston art curator). A lovely copy with only a hint of shelf wear.. Red cloth/boards; gilt lettering on black spine title line. Orange dj with color image and red lettering. 145 pp. with occasional bw illustrations. Edited and with an introduction by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. Four lectures, text alterations, 3 appendices, a chronology of Morse's Artistic Life, bibliography, and an index. Well-illustrated. The first publication of a series of lectures delivered by the 19th-century American painter to the New York Athenaeum in 1826, soon after he became president of the National Academy of Design. The four lectures marked an important step in the development of the artistic profession in the US.
(Inventory #: 162993)