Waring Pegot (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large Card Folded Once, Exhibition Brochure, Oil Painting, Water Colors, Welded Bronze, Cast Bronze, Stone Carving, Drawings, Wood Carving. Per Wikipedia, "Pegot Wolf Waring (1908-1983) Was An American Sculptor, Known Especially For Her Work With Direct Carving.Born In Dallas, Waring Attended Washington University In St. Louis Before Marrying An Attorney From Chicago; Later She Traveled To Cranbrook Educational Community To Work With Carl Milles. In 1936 She Moved To California With Her Daughter, And In 1939 She Showed Work At The World's Fair. It Was Around This Time That She Became Acquainted With Bruno Adriani, Who Introduced Her To The World Of Pre-Columbian Art. In 1945 His Book Pegot Waring: Stone Sculptures Was Published By The Nierendorf Gallery. In 1950 Waring Became The First Woman To Be Granted A One-Person Show At The Pasadena Art Institute; Nevertheless, As A Carver Of Animals And Other Figures She Found Herself Increasingly At Odds With Abstract Expressionism Later In Her Career. Waring Is Represented In The Collection Of The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art As Well As In Numerous Private Collections.".

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED and inscribed on half-title page by artist Pegot Waring; good in black boards, no dust jacket; majority of paper on spine is missing, bookplate inside front cover, minor fraying to one board corner else a tight square unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Quarto. 41, [34] pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Bound into brown morocco with gilt stamped spine (possible presentation binding). Binding rubbed at the shoulders and corners with tiny splits at the spine ends, endleaves toned at the turn-ins, very good and sound. Inscribed to the book's publisher by Adriani facing the half-title: "Inscribed for my friend, Karl Nierendorf, Bruno Adriani.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8° - 41pp - 18 B/w Plates and Portrait of Pegot Waring (1909-1983) American sculptor . She created mostly figurative sculptures , often depictions of animals. First edition, inscribed and signed and one original letter by Bruno Adriani. Original boards. In Very good condition. Inscribed by Author(s).