Hints To Young Painters: A Historic Treatise on the Color Expression and Painting Techniques of American Artists of the Colonial and Federal Periods

NY: Reinhold Publishing Co, 1965. Hardcover. VG/G- (pages are crisp and clean. Dust jacket has light soiling and wear, tear in dj at top of spine). Color illustrated boards with black spine and gilt lettering; tan dust jacket with brown lettering; illustrated end pages, xxiii, 46 pp. 10 bw plates. Karpel (I-1351) states "...Describes materials and procedures for portrait painting. Sully's handbook reveals many of the techniques used by himself and his contemporaries, including Allston, West, Leslie and Trumbull, in the preparation of varnishes, canvases and flesh-tones." This copy is a reprint with a 23 page biographical introduction written by Faber Birren. The contents have been reset, but the text is the same, with minor spelling corrections. (Inventory #: 1854)