skutch robert frank (2 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: VG. Tan paper wraps, 73 pp., numerous bw images. Auction catalogue, sale held November 14-15, 1929. Gives some genealogical and historical information on the first ancestor to come to America, Israel I. Cohen, from Leeds, England in 1773. He married Judith Solomon and they had six sons. The house, completed in 1830, was passed down through this prominent Baltimore family until the death in 1929 of Bertha Cohen, who left no descendants. Some of the items mentioned in the catalogue were gifts for the wedding of Judith Cohen, 1787. Items sold included furniture (pair exquisite drawing room chairs circa 1830 with a painted and lacquered center panel), glass and porcelain (e.g. Vienna porcelain scent bottle circa 1840), historic and decorative paintings, fabrics and Egyptian antiques and silver.

Hardbound. Condición: VG. Blue buckram covers. Appx. 300 pp. This is a typewritten listing of American Artists in alphabetical order, evidently intended for private use. For such a listing, it is extremely comprehensive and detailed. It provides general information on a large number of first, second and third tier artists, and has an index of sorts at the rear, which is perhaps redundant, given that the listing is also alphabetical. A welcome addition to the library of the independent curator, and likely unique. Author's name taken from the spine - there is no compilation data found within the book to date it or place it. It derived from the library of the Washington County (Md.) Museum of Art. Skutch appears to have been an art dealer or auctioneer in the Baltimore, MD areain the 1930s.