Author: Sessions, Ralph
Title: The Shipcarver's Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America
Description: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Navy blue boards, navy blue & color illus. dust jacket, 240 pp. 90 color plates, 32 BW illus. "The first book to assess the artistry and history of these two closely related genres in a single volume. Richly illustrated and elegantly written, it reveals the intertwining of art, commerce, and shipcarving in nineteenth-century America." (dj) Exquisite indeed. VG (SIGNED BY AUTHOR on tp) .

Keywords: American Art ; Shipcarving ; Wooden Figure Sculptures ; ; General Art - American


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