Joseph coburn smith (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, 51 pp. Original cloth-backed boards. Some sunning to boards, else Near Fine. Charles Hovey Pepper (1864-1950) has the distinction of being the second American (after Helen Hyde) to travel to Japan and to have Japanese woodblocks made there based on his watercolors. Born in Waterville, Maine, Pepper was the son of the Reverend George Dana Boardman Pepper, a minister of the First Baptist Church of Waterville, who became the President of Colby University (now Colby College) in 1882. Pepper received his A.B. degree from Colby in 1889 and his A.M. in 1892. In 1890, Pepper and his wife moved to New York City, where he continued his studies at the Arts Student League under William Merritt Chase. Three years later, Pepper and his family moved to Paris for six years, where he studied at the Académie Julian for two years under Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. Pepper then studied with the art nouveau painter Edmund Aman-Jean, and subsequently set up own studio in Paris, regularly exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1894, 1895, 1897, and 1898.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Appears to have a front end-paper missing. There is an inscription Charles Hovey Pepper on front endpaper dated 1945. Unclear whether it is the artist's signature: There is one word before "Of" the signature. Unclear of first word would indicate compliments or copy. martin Mower written above. Red/pink boards in good condition with minor wear.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Pink paper covered boards edge faded. Personal blind stamp on title and within.; 51 pages.