Keck Sheldon (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of this issue, with a good+ decorative paper cover. Fraying and chipping along the bottom edge of the tissue jacket. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. Contents include: "Rags to Riches: The Story of Virginia Papermaking," no author listed; "The Past Preserved," by Sheldon Keck; and "Eine Kleine Kleemusik," by John White; and "Sea Creatures from the Age of Sail," by Robert Niblock. Faint damp-stain to bottom corner of the last four pages. A lovely copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Museum journal with but two articles: The Autobiography of Worthington Whittredge 1820 - 1910 and The Technical Examination of Paintings by Sheldon Keck. Keck was for many years the museum's 'restorer', and a well-regarded conservator; Whittredge was an important lanscape painter of the Hudson River School; his autobiography has been condensed by John I. H. Baur, the museum's curator of paintings & sculpture. Paperback, blue-green wraps, red titling. Light wear, minor damage at head and foot of spine; name & date inside front cover. Text & plates clean; 82 pages + 36 figures on 29 b/w plates; 3 b/w plates within the WW article.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. This is a very good softcover copy in the museum's original blue green paper covers printed in dark red, with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This issue of the journal contains two articles: The Autobiography of Worthington Whittredge 1820 - 1910 and The Technical Examination of Paintings by Sheldon Keck. Worthington Whittredge was an important American painter associated with the Hudson River School. His friends included Albert Bierstadt, Sanford Robinson Gifford and John Kensett. His paintings are in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Louvre in Paris. One of Whittredge's paintings hangs in the Roosevelt Room in the White House. An interesting footnote in Whittredge's long career: he served as the model for George Washington in Leutze's famous painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Illustrated in black & white. 11" high X 8" wide, 82 text pages + XXXVI plates. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.