Hamblett Theora (4 results)
Language: English
Published by Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, March 1975., 1975
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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Poor condition - sold as is. First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. 96 pages. Hardcover: H 31cm x L 23.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Green cloth. Although the text block remains bound it is entirely detached from boards along hinges - thus…book needs to be re-stitched and re-cased. Light foxing to text block's top edge; some foxing and soiling to leaves with several having some nicks and/or surface abrasions at edges/margins. Artist's ink inscription "Theora Hamblett 1975" upon the front free endpaper. With Foreword by Dorene Weaver Angeles, b/w photographs, and color illustrations. A now uncommon monograph of which artist-signed copies are exceptionally uncommon. Oxford, Mississippi artist Theora Hamblett (1895-1977) only started painting in the late 1940s but her talent and distinctive style were recognized promptly for famed New York gallery owner Betty Parsons acquired one of her works in 1954 and quickly sold it to the Museum of Modern Art. Hamblett remains among the most collected Mississippi artists. {Art Shelf #17|CMS-00053} ISBN 0878050698.
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DREAMS AND VISIONS. [Dream and vision paintings by Theora Hamblett.]
Hamblett, Theora, 1895-1977 in collaboration with Edwin E. Meek.
Language: English
Published by Theora Hamblett,, Oxford, MS:, 1975
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition (not stated) SIGNED BY THEORA HAMBLETT. 66 pages (plus covers). Spiral-bound paperback with wire coil binder: H 14cm x L 21.5cm. White pictorial paper covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Theora Hamblett's ink signature upon the title page immediately written u…nderneath her printed name along with Hamblett's handwritten correction to the booklet's price on the front cover verso. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Features 42 color reproductions of Hamblett's paintings divided into their respective dream or vision sequences with explanatory text reviewing the inspiration and artistic approach to the important images in each series. Born in the rural Lafayette County community of Paris, Mississippi, Theora Hamblett (1895-1977) is now recognized as one the state's premier twentieth century artists with her distinctive primitive folk art style and outward simplicity belying abstract religious imagery frequently displayed within the context of rustic Mississippi scenes. A very good+ copy of a quite uncommon publication of which most copies were sold directly in the artist's Oxford, Mississippi studio. {Art-Shelf#4|CMS-02621}. Signed by Author(s).
Language: English
Published by Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, March 1975., 1975
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
US$ 350.00
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First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. 96 pages. Hardcover: H 31cm x L 23.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with slight soiling and foxing; nicks, short tears, and some creasing/bumping; shallow chipping at top of front flap with publ…isher's printed price still present at top right; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Green cloth; impressions/residue of removed tape strips near top and bottom fore-edge corners of both boards with free endpapers having associated impressions too; front board's top right corner bumped. Some foxing to text block edges. Usual toning to endpapers from binding glue; two slender patches of horizontal peeling to rear free endpaper verso (hinting at the past presence of past institutional sheet but no associated stamps/markings); interior foxing but strongest on several initial and rear text leaves. Binding is firm. Glued slightly below center of front free endpaper is color illustrated postcard (H10 cm x L 14.25cm) with a reversed image of Hamblett's painting "Carrying Cotton to the Gin" with the artist's three-line ink inscription "Wayman Covington | Theora Hamblett | 1975" written immediately above (inscribee is Ripley, Mississippi local historian and Hamblett collector Waymon Thomas Covington, 1943-2024). Binding is firm. With Foreword by Dorene Weaver Angeles, b/w photographs, and color illustrations. A now uncommon monograph of which artist-signed copies are exceptionally uncommon. Oxford, Mississippi artist Theora Hamblett (1895-1977) only started painting in the late 1940s but her talent and distinctive style were recognized promptly for famed New York gallery owner Betty Parsons acquired one of her works from Andy Warhol in 1954 and quickly sold it to the Museum of Modern Art. Hamblett remains among the most collected Mississippi artists. {Art Shelf #19|CMS-00870} ISBN 0878050698.
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.Black Dog Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Theora Hamblett (January 15, 1895 - March 6, 1977) was an American painter, one of the first Mississippi folk artists to achieve national prominence.[1] Hamblett's paintings can be divided into three categories: memory paintings, dream paintings, and landscape paintings. A lovely ob…long ring bound book. Quite uncommon. Book.
