The Drawings and Paintings of Ira Moskowitz [Signed]
by Singer, Isaac Bashevis (foreword) Essay By Joseph S. Czestochowski
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0929194004
- ISBN 13
- 9780929194004
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Landmark Book Co., 1990. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Landmark Book Co., 1990, first printing. Folio, 10 3/4" x 12", 228pp., over 80 full-color plates, plus 200 b/w plates. Signed by artist on half title. Laid in are two 1946 autograph letters signed from the artist in Shiprock, New Mexico, where he created a series of 60 lithographs on the ceremonial dances of the Navaho, while residing on a Navaho reservation. Each letter is two pages - February 24, 1946 -Dear Gus; and November 19, in which he mentions a forthcoming book of his art with the text being written by John Collier, commissioner of Indian Affairs (later published as Patterns And Ceremonials Of The Indians Of The Southwest). Additionally, two half flyers for the artist's exhibition of Indian subjects - October 20 to November 7, (1947 or 1948) at Arthur H. Harlow Galleries, NYC are laid in. Book is fine in a fine dust jacket. The letters are very good with folds and slight loss along the edges. Flyers are good. . Signed By Artist. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008948
- Title
- The Drawings and Paintings of Ira Moskowitz [Signed]
- Author
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis (foreword) Essay By Joseph S. Czestochowski
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0929194004
- ISBN 13
- 9780929194004
- Publisher
- Landmark Book Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- Folio
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Signed;
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