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Green Cloth. Condition: Good. 101 Plates And 89 Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. 129 Pp + High Quality Plates In Chemise Mounted On Rear Cover. Brown Boards, Gilt, Gilt Bright But Spine Perished And Crudely Repaired. Hinges Intact. Ownership Stamp Of Southern California Muralist Pasquale G Napolitano, Dated 1930, While On His Trip To Italy,And Part Of His Reference Library. Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano, Los Angeles Muralist Etc., Studied At Otis In The 1920-1923 Under Julia Wendt And F.Tolles Chamberlin, Studied At Chouinard 1921-1924 Under Chamberlin, Taught Sculpture In The First Such Class At Chouinard In 1924, Where He Did A Bust Of Mrs. Chouinard, Then Worked For Herman Sachs, Of Herman Sachs And J Konde, 1925-1929, On Interior Decorations And Murals For Many Prominent Los Angeles Buildings, Including Bullocks Wilshire, Los Angeles City Hall, The Pacific Gas And Electric Headquarters Building, The May Company (1929), Bel-Air Bay Club, Hollywood Park Turf Club, Etc. While Working For Sachs He Traveled To Florida For Work On Architectural Decoration. He Studied Ceramics , Then [Under Alfred Binn] At Alfred University Circa 1930 In Nyc. He Then Studied In Italy, Munich (Arts And Crafts School], And Berlin (Prussian Academy Of Fine Arts), Returning To The U. S., In 1932. He Began Independent Business In Interior Building Decorations In Ny 1932-1933, Working On Many Buildings. He Then Returned To Los Angeles Where He Resumed His Architectural Work And Opened A Home Studio Where He Produced Ceramics [Including Work For Judson Studios In The 1930'S-1950'S], Sculpture, Textiles, Etc. In 1933-1935 He Worked For The Federal And State Public Works Of Art Projects, Where He Met Merle Armitage, Who Encouraged Him And Who Wrote This Book About Him; Armitage Used His Work As A Primary Illustrator In Many Books 1934 To 1970. Napolitano Did Murals For Many Los Angeles Area Schools, Including Beverly Hills High School, Also Many Buildings Such As The Hollywood Park Turf Club, And Some Private Residences, Including The Residence Of William Andrews Clark In Santa Barbara. He Worked As A Gilder In Santa Barbara 1935-1936, Then Again For Sachs In 1936-1937. He Again Taught At Chouinard In 1938-1939 And Is Featured Prominently In Their Catalog. He Became A Member Of Several Motion Picture Unions, Worked For Mgm And Later Cbs, Did Work On George Pal's Cartoons Circa 1943 As A Primary Cartoonist, Undertook Work For Cbs, Worked On Design For The King And I, Etc., But Starting In The Later 1940'S His Primary Focus Was On Religious Sculpture And Architectural Decoration, Particularly Murals And Sculpture, In Churches In The Los Angeles Area, And Some Work In San Francisco, San Diego, El Centro, Arizona, Etc. Including A Well-Known Statue At The Franciscan Retreat In Malibu. Much Of This Work Has Been Inadvertently Destroyed In Remodels, Or Lost, But His Work Notes And Sketches, Photographs And Drawings, Textiles And Sculpture, Etc., Are Preserved In In The Napolitano Papers .

438pp, illustrated throughout, hardback, ISBN 900681299100, VGC,