Wallace, David H. - John Rogers: The People's SculptorMiddletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Brownish cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated dust jacket, 326 pp. Numerous bw plates. A most useful book on this popular sculptor / marketing genius, with an annotated catalogue raisonné of 225 works, as well as notes on additional works mistakenly attributed to John Rogers ( pages 169-280). Appendices on "Making a Rogers Group" and "Notes for Collectors", including list of published photographs and stereoptican views of Rogers Groups. Essential for collectors or dealers of the of John Rogers' statuary, with descriptions and histories of all 208 known works, including those not located. Much more useful than the smaller, spiral-bound guides often found in the marketplace.Contents as follows: Poor relations -- A practical education -- Learning a trade -- Master mechanic -- European studies -- John Rogers, artist -- Marble, bronze, or plaster? -- Scenes of camp life -- "Rogers' celebrated groups of statuary" -- John Rogers and the Realists -- "A large meed of praise" -- "Large sales and small profits" -- The end of the vogue -- Catalogue of the works of John Rogers. Good+/Good jacket in mylar .
USD 39.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 | £UK 29 | JP¥ 5738] Book number 18708
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