JOHN STEUART CURRY'S PAGEANT OF AMERICA

New York: AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP, 1943. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Dustjacket.. Octavo.Light brown buckram-covered boards, with gilt and red lettering/design to spine. Loaded with black and white photographs and eight color images. Light shelfwear to dustjacket and some light shipping to top and bottom of spine (of dustjacket). "...an interpretive account based on the volumnious notes and sketches that Curry has kept since. his youth, of his early home life on a Kansas farm, the exhuberant enthusiasm of the high school and college athlete, his professional art training at the Kansas City and Chicago Art Instiututes, the hard and successful struggle with reality in the commercial art field, the study and experience in the European academy and art museums, and the years of fruitful activity since 1929 directed toward new forms and a distinctly American art...

This book is "another volume. in the series devoted to outstanding American artists...on the premise that artists' works, in conjunction with an authentic record of their lives, constitute an irreplaceable heritage, one which could best be conserved while the subjects themselves are alive..."