mitchell siporin (8 resultados)

Softcover, unpaginated; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Stiff Wrapper. Condición: Good +. 24 pp.library book plate (included in One Hundred american Jwish Artists YKUF 1949) bound with An exhibition of oil paintings by Mitchell Siporin The Park Gallery 1960 8 pages, work filled with Jewish themes OCLC Number: 237374319.

brossura. Condición: Good. 0. Fascicolo in 8, bross.ed., pp.n.n., ( 28). Lievi bruniture del tempo alle cop., per il resto buono stato. Catalogo della mostra annuale 1967 all'Accademia Americana di Roma, espongono : Gillespie, Suttman, Stone, Smyly, Patterson, Devries, Pappas, Saler, Hunenko, Siporin, Boghosian, Emerson, Reed, ecc. In lingua inglese. Copertina di Frank James.Luogo di pubblicazione RomaEditore Daily American PressAnno pubblicazione 1967Materia/Argomento Arte, Mostre, Pittura, Scultura, Architettura, Artisti Americani ***Books dated over 70 years old are not exportable, please do not order.***. Book.

Condición: Very good. - Typed letter on an approximately 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of cream-colored note paper. Signed "Mitchell Siporin". The top edge of the letter is lightly creased with a tiny chip out of the top left corner. Folded three times for mailing. There is a tiny tear to the left edge of 1 fold. Very good. Siporin replies to an invitation from Harold Rugg to speak at one of Rugg's lunchtime forums at Columbia University's Teachers College: "It would be a pleasure to take up your invitation to attend and address your All-College Luncheon Forum. The date I would prefer is March 31st. If that is no longer open, however, do suggest another time. As for the topic, may I communicate that to you after we've arrived at a satisfactory date?"Mitchell Siporin [1920-1976] was a Social Realist American painter. Beginning in the mid-1930s, Siporin worked as a painter for the Illinois Art Project through the Works Progress Administration. Together with Edward Millman he painted "the largest single mural awarded for a post office by the Section of Fine Arts" in the Central Post Office in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1951 he founded the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University.One of the best-known educators during the Progressive era of education, Harold Rugg [1886-1960] was a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University. A civil engineer, he had become interested in how students learn and pursued a doctorate in education. He was responsible for producing the very first series of school textbooks from 1929 until the 1940s.

spiral bound. Condición: Good. Artists illustrating full page business/personal ads including Joseph Ablow, Albert Alcalay, Leonared Baskin, Hyman Bloom, Walter Feldman, Antonio Frasconi, G Kepes, Jacob Lawrence, Anton Refregier, , Moses Soyer, , Jean Wechsler, Jack wolfe, Art Wood and many othes who went on to distinguished careers in art. About 100 pages of full page illustrations many in color. Lacks front color covers -back cover present Amazing collection of graphic artists displaying early talent. Portfolio of illustrations issued as fund raiser for art programs at Brandeis.Leonard Bernstein was the honorary chairman of the event.

Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. (xxiv) 200pp. Light brown buckram boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Decorative floral endpapers. Illustrated title page and contributors list at the front. This publication is an anthology of work from Yiddish poets in the Midwest and Western United States from 1932-1933, beautifully illustrated, most notably by Todros Geller. The collection was also published to honor the memory of the recently deceased Yiddish poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (1886-1932), with the initial section of poetry dedicated to him. The work is illustrated throughout in b/w, most notably with 7 full-page expressionist woodcut engravings by acclaimed artists Todros Geller (1889-1949) and Mitchell Siporin (19101976). Siporin created the evocative title page with woodblock printing in black and red as well as two others. Geller contibutes the table of contents with avant-garde typography as well as 3 other large images, plus an additional smaller woodcut. Geller's contibutions include poletarian and Jewish themes. Poets who contributed to this collection are Moyshe Bogdanski (1889-1938), Shloyme Belski (1890-1972), Ben-Sholem (Shimen Shneyder, b.1890, also ed.), Pinhes Berman (1892-1974), Yankev Brodski (1892-1980), H. (Hirsch) Goldovsky (1892-1948), Borekh Goldhart (1897- 1950), L. Gorelik (1889-1941), Yehude Leyb Dashevski (aka Yalbiz or Louis Dashevski, 1890-1974), Mattes Deutch (1894-1966, also ed.), Pesi Hershfeld-Pomerants (1900-1978), Shifre Weiss (1889-1955), Malka Heifetz Tussman (1893-1987), L. Miler (1889-1967), Alter Esselin (1889-1974), Ezra Korman (1888-1959), Yitskhok-Elkhonen Rontsh (1899-1985); and Shloyme Shvartz (aka Selwyn S. Schwartz, 1907-1988, also ed.) among others. Many of these contributors were born in Eastern Europe and had later settled in the Chicago area. The content is organized by poet (alphabetically), with each contributing multiple poems, and many accompanied by a b/w photographic portrait. There is an additional printed table of contents on the final page. Binding with light rubbing and sunning to the spine. Tail of spine lightly bumped. Front board slightly bowed. Pages throughout (including images) clean and bright, with the occasional small stain or smudge, mostly in the margins. Starting at interior front gutter, but binding fairly tight overall. Binding in very good, interior in very good+ condition overall. Yiddish title: ??????????? : ?? ?????? ??????? ??? ???????? ??? ??????? : ??? ?? ????? ??? ??? ??? ???? ??????? Publication: ??????, ?????? ???????? Contributors: .?????, ?????; ??? ??????; ??????, ??????; ??????, ???????; ????????, ? Alternate transliteration: Farlag Tseshinski.

First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm); pictorial card wrappers, 126pp; illus. Mild soild and age-darkening to covers, with diagonal crease to rear wrapper, else a tight, Very Good copy. Ink ex-libris of Pittsburgh writer and activist J. Ernest Wright (see note), who has also made a few inobtrusive marks in the text. A sympathetic biography of Albert Parsons and the Haymarket Martyrs, written by a communist fellow-traveler and published by the New York division of the Comintern-backed International Publishers. A classic Popular Front example of the CPUSA appropriating a key historical figure - in this case, an anarchist - whose political views would have been considered irreconcilable with Marxism just a few years earlier (and would again by the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939). Includes a glowing foreword by Lucy E. Parsons, who by this time was well into her eighties, and five illustrations after original lithographs by Mitchell Siporin. This copy with ownership markings of Pittsburgh labor activist and author J. Ernest Wright, director of Pittsburgh's New Theatre and author of an important history of the city's African American community, which wasn't actually published until near fifty years after the author's death (The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004).

Condición: Good. Print after a painting. Presentation in ink to William Saroyan from the artist. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Signed in ink. Framed. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, who acquired it form the Saroyan family.