Author: (FLINT, W. Russell)
Title: Famous Water-Colour Painters: W. Russell Flint, A.R. A.
Description: London, The Studio" Limited, 1928. Hardcover. Introduction by G.S. Sandilands. 4to. Terra cotta paper over boards with paper label. 8pp. 8 captioned tissue-guarded tipped-in color plates. Very good. Internally near fine, though binding a bit rubbed and scuffed and bearing ½" chip at head of spine. A tight and decent first edition of the second volume in this multi-volume series covering different artists. Best of all, front flyleaf bears the large and bold signature in brown ink of Hungarian-born American art director Paul Groesse (1906-87), winner of three Academy Awards in the Best Art Direction category (for 1940s "Pride and Prejudice," 1946's "The Yearling" and 1949's "Little Women"). .

Keywords: Art


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