Albert Thomas DeRome 1885 - 1959: Being a Story of His Life and a Picture Diary of His Oils and Watercolors (SIGNED)
Oakland, CA: WIM Publishing, 1988. 1st. Cloth. INSCRIBED "For two good friends - true art lovers/with love, and much appreciation/and thanks/Jim Coran &/Walter Nelson-Reed/Carmel, July 3, 1988." Oblong 4to. (svi) 164pp. Biography, Index., Diary of Paintings. 555 illustrations, most are color reproductions of DeRome's artwork; some photo-illustrations. Black and maroon cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's acetate dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (chipping with some loss to extremities; rubbing). Item #14044
The definitive work on this early, important California artist. "Born in Cayucos, California, Albert De Rome became a California landscape painter, especially of natural landscapes formations, seascapes and marine scenes near Carmel and Monterey. Usually his palette was bright in both oil and watercolor, but he did the occasional nocturne. Scholars have compared his painting style and subjects to those of Thomas Hill and Albert Bierstadt. However, Albert De Rome never affiliated with any formal group of painters, although he had many close friends including Percy Gray, Gunnar Widforss and Will Sparks." - Hughes, Artists in California.
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