Swift Dick (8 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Edition Unstated. Some shelf and corner wear with curling, creasing, and scuffing to the cover. Tear on the bottom of the spine leaving pages exposed. Book and pages are yellowed from age. Text appears clean. Size: 26 cm. 200 pp. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; ISBN: 0884210324. ISBN/EAN: 9780884210320. Dewey Code: 646.4. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561007769.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. The JDR 3rd Fund, Task Force on Youth, c 1971, red stapled wraps, second printing, Very Good (minor scuffing to back cover, po name on front cover), 96 pages; F3016 P8P.

Wooden Sign, Brochure. Condition: Near Fine. Original Poster and Sign. Small B/W Brochure For His Exhibit At Wooden Horse Gallery 1963 S. Coast Blvd., Laguna Beach [Year And Address Were The Same].

Magazine. Condition: Very Good-. Rare issue. Magazine cover has very light toning and wear with some light tattering at edges but clean, bright and good+. Pages lightly toned and very good. Contents: Editorial [The Editor] ed6 The Case of the Curious Bride [Part 1 of 11; Perry Mason] Erle Stanley Gardner sl16 Congress Collapses U. S. Senator M. M. Logan (as told to Herbert Corey) ar20 Cupid Is a Sailor Frederick Hazlitt Brennan ss26 Gas and Dynamite Tom A. Burke ar27 Puzzles, Patriots, Poverty Beverly Hills mr30 Mutiny in the Arctic [Part 2 of 3] General William Mitchell ar34 Presidents Contest Prize Winners [Misc. ] cn36 Twenty Questions [Misc. ] qz37 Luncheon al Fresco J. I. Lawrence vi38 Education in Damascus Vincent Sheean ss43 Good Books Oliver Swift br44 Spare the Rod and Spoil a Star Dick Williams ar47 Housekeeping at the White House Anna Roosevelt Dall ar48 $250 Weekly Limerick Contest [Misc. ] cn49 Cross Word Puzzle [Misc. ] pz50 From Hollywood.To the Ladies! Princess Alexandra Kropotkin cl52 Bright Girl [Part 6 of 10] Viña Delmar sl60 Vox Pop [The Readers] lc.

Mostly photo portraits, 11 x 8.5, red cloth with pict paper cover label, unpag, covers very worn and soiled, extremities fraying, hinges very loose, text block cracked, scattered soiling, staining to gutter, one page missing top half. Pilot training class book, covers Squadron 11-16, with page devoted to Bonita Granville. SWAF.

8.5" x 11" pp. 39, [1], includes black and white illustrations. Illustrated white wrappers are clean with a few minor smudges along bottom edges. Text and illustrations are bright and clean. Includes a 24" x 33" fold-out poster featuring photos of Julia Child and her kitchen. Very good. Design Quarterly issue number 104 featuring an in-depth look at the interior design of Julia Child's famous kitchen.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Oblong octavo. Cord-tied brown leatherette album blind stamped with 14 gelatin silver prints Each is approximately 5" x 4", with caption title in manuscript beneath the image. Album near fine, the images are fine. Dick Swift was an American printmaker and illustrator later known for his experimentation with different printing techniques during a printmaking revival in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 60s. This hardbound album contains 14 rare images of Swift's early pen drawings, long before he developed the more representational printmaking style he became known for. The drawings display the seeds of the artist's skill and the themes he would later hone-in on and develop. Likely done during his time at Chouinard Art Institute, the first formal art education he received, Swift casts a large net for inspiration; the influence of genres such as surrealism and art nouveau paired with cynical social criticisms make up these more literal early works. The drawings mostly contain a caricaturization of Hollywood debauchery. A witness to the squalor and sleaze of Los Angeles at the time, Swift's drawings are moralistic, if perhaps a bit arch: "Skid Row" and "Bald-Headed Row" depict crowded nightlife scenes with Neanderthal-esque men ogling scantily clad women. Other captions such as "Praise the Lord and Pass The Ammunition," "With Liberty and Justice For All," and "Aimee Semple McPherson gives an illustrated lecture" are a clue into the artist's disillusion with both the government and his Roman Catholic upbringing. Two drawings show a specific dystopian future of completely automated factories creating humans on an assembly line, while other drawings contain surreal nightmarish hellscapes of suffering or more realistic incidents of everyday cruelties. This well-preserved and neatly-bound album is an interesting look into the undeveloped and naive ideas of the young artist before his many mentorships. Richard Swift, Jr. was born in Long Beach, California on January 29, 1918. He attended Chouinard Art Institute before moving to New York to study under artists such as Reginald Marsh, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Morris Kantor at the prestigious Art Students' League. He returned to California in 1946 to continue his studies at several art institutions in Los Angeles and received his M.F.A. in 1957 from Claremont College. In his later career, Swift taught at Occidental College, California State University at Long Beach, and Chouinard Art Institute. He died in June 2010 but his prints continue to be exhibited and auctioned internationally. Swift's work can be found in the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Worcester Art Museum. This album was certainly retained by Swift as a portfolio or example of his early work. Arresting, personal, and insightful window on what was to some degree an outrageous take on contemporary Los Angeles society.