Lipton, Leah - A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits

Washington, DC, National Portrait Gallery, 1985. Softcover. Black wraps with color illustration on front cover, 195 pp. 13 color, over 100 bw plates. Catalogue lists 55 works in this exhibition. Also has a list of all known portraits, with small bw reproduction if possible at end. Major essay by Leah Lipton. Notes and selected bibliography. The best source of recent scholarship on this artist. 1350 copies printed. Exhibition held Apr. 12 to Sept. 2, 1985, and one other location. VG- a solid clean copy but with some printing defects on the cover that look like white streaks and crease on front cover, minor edgewear (ink writing prior to title page) .

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