Visions from a White Mountain Palette: The Life and Times of Charles A. Hunt, Madison’s White Mountain Painter.
signed first edition
2008162 · Portsmouth, NH
by Rubb, Roy.
Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher LLC, 2008. First Edition, Numbered Copy #162. Signed by the Author on title; Signed & Inscribed by the Author on Dedication page. Large octavo, hardcover (red cloth), gilt letters, 89 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: ...As a museum docent, Bubb began to research the obscure artist, uncovering his life in Nashua, New Harmpshire, and his ties to Madison families. In his search the author learned about many more paintings, found a number of old photographs related to the artist and his family and, as much as possible, answered the question [who was Charles A. Hunt?]... In preparing this book, Roy Bubb researched many Madison homesteads depicted in the Hunt paintings, and here reveals much town history concerning early settlers and their ties to each other as they struggled to farm the rocky hillsides. A native of Madison, Charles A. Hunt (1852-1930) painted what he knew, the farms of his hometown and, in the manner of other White Mountain artists, views of Mt. Chocorua, the Saco River Valley, and Mt. Washington. Additing to Bubb’s work are the critiques of art historian Charlotte Colby Anderson... (Inventory #: qms499)