The Permanent Palette
Hardbound
1930 · Mountain Lake Park, Md
by Fischer, Martin
Mountain Lake Park, Md: National Publishing Society, 1930. Hardbound. VG or better, ex archival art library copy with call letters. Blue gilt embossed cloth. xiv, 134 pages, 4 color plates. Being a study of oil painting from a chemist's point-of-view, based on eight years of experiments and scientific research into the chemical reactions of colors. It has an interesting glossary, giving chemical bases for various terms. The color plates are useful, the book is really in very condition. Fischer laments the fact that even as he writes some of the finest work of the late 19th and early 20th century was beginning to fade and change hues. (Inventory #: 103385)