Art and Artists in Connecticut (INSCRIBED)
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879. 1st. INSCRIBED "***/with the author's esteem/H.W. French." Tall 8vo. xvi, 176pp. Illustrations; frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with black & gilt pictorial front board & spine; AEG. A very good copy (minor wear to extremities; light spine fading; bookplate removed inside front board; Naples, Maine Library stamp to page 1). Item #13480
Chapters include: Outline of the Growth of Art; History of The Yale Art Gallery; History of The Wadsworth Art Gallery; History of The Art-Schools of Connecticut; and essays on Watercolor Painting; Education in Art and The True Artist and His Work. Includes information on 26 female and 139 male artists and sculptors.
Price: $200.00