Hardcover
1986 · Philadelphia
by Fine, Ruth E. and Robert F. Looney et al.
Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia / University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Hardcover. VG/VG. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, gray and color illusustrated dust jacket; viii, 340 pp., BW illustrations and 5 color plates. "The Prints of Benton Murdoch Spruance is a catalogue raisonne of all of Spruance's known prints: the 536 lithographs and 19 etchings drypoints, aquatints, woodcuts, and monprints. Ruth Fine's introduction to the catalogue perceptively analyzes Spruance's themes and techniques, traces his development as an artist, and assesses twentieth century. Robert Looney's foreword and essays by Jerome Kaplan and Samuel Maitlin, who knew Spruance well, give insight into the man and his life." - dust jacker description.
(Inventory #: 158161)