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Synopsis
Mr. Falk profiles his subject with verve. The first recognition for many of that generation's foremost local artists (Sopher, at age 17) was as a prize winner in The Evening Sun editorial page's annual sketch contest. A friend recalls "the distinctive brownish wash" Sopher achieved by finger-dipping in his coffee. Mr. Falk includes some of Sopher's writings.
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- PublisherFalk Art Reference
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0932087140
- ISBN 13 9780932087140
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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Aaron Sopher: Satirist of the American Condition
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Sound View Press, Madison, CT, 1991
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ISBN 13: 9780932087140
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Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations; 24 x 31 cm. Produced in a limited edition in conjunction with an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Leaves rippling a little along the tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Profusely illustrated. Size: Oblong. Collectible. Seller Inventory # 119331
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Aaron Sopher: Satirist of the American Condition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # D7S9-1-M-0932087140-6
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Aaron Sopher: Satirist of the American Condition
Published by
Falk Art Reference, 1991
ISBN 10: 0932087140
ISBN 13: 9780932087140
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Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by author, Peter Hastings Falk. Includes an original pen and ink drawing by Aaron Sopher and related ephemera. 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. "A book produced in a limited edition in conjunction with an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art." "Aaron Sopher (1905-1972) was an American illustrator who studied drawing at the Maryland Institute College of Art. After leaving MICA, Sopher made a living working on free-lance illustration jobs for the Baltimore Sun, and his work was soon printed regularly within the newspaper. During a two-year residence in New York from 1929-31, his cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, as well a 1929 issue of The New Masses, a leftist publication devoted to social commentary and illustration, to which many renowned illustrator and printmaker contemporaries contributed. His illustrations convey his sense of social responsibility, support for civil rights and the interests of the laboring class. As scholar Peter Hastings Falk accounts, "it was during the Depression that Sopher seems to have fully realized that being an artist meant making a commitment to record 'the American condition' rather than merely making political jabs or seeking a laugh." Throughout his career, Sopher worked primarily in pen, ink and watercolor, and less often in etching and painting, preferring the immediacy of drawing to the more protracted process of etching and painting. He admired the work of old masters Daumier, Rembrandt, Hogarth and Goya. Sopher was also impressed by contemporaries Jose Clemente Orozco, George Grosz, Reginald Marsh and William Gropper, all of whom worked substantially in illustration and prints. Sopher sketched from direct observation, carrying pen in hand and making drawings of people passing by on the street, or interacting at exhibitions and events. His drawings are characterized by quick, deft lines that capably capture, in a minimal amount of strokes, a scene and mood among the characters he takes up as subjects." - Joseph M. Cohen Collection. Signed. Seller Inventory # 2202170142
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