0292727178 - German Artist on the Texas Frontier: Friedrich Richard Petri by Newcomb, William Wilmon; Petri, Friedrich Richard; Carnahan, Mary S ; Texas Memorial Museum (12 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Petri, Friedrich Richard (illustrator). 1st Edition. GERMAN ARTIST ON THE TEXAS FRONTIER, FRIEDRICH RICHARD PETRI, text by William W. Newcomb Jr, illustrations by Friedrich Richard Petri (75 drawings, 35 color paintings and watercolors, 28 sketches), hardcover with dust jacket (price never printed), first edition (per publisher?s custom of denoting only later printings), inscribed by the author in 1979 on the title page, 1978. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no dogears, tears, or marks. There is no book plate nor signature of prior owner, just the inscription by the author to the prior owner. Not a remainder or library book. The gray cloth boards are in near fine condition (slight bumping of spine). The dust jacket is in good condition (faded spine with no effect on lettering, light edge wear and rubbing). 10 ¼ x 8 ¼, 240 pages, 35 ounces. NOTE: BECAUSE OF THE SIZE AND WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE MAY BE REQUIRED IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE US. XX [From the dust jacket flaps] The land that awaited German artist Friedrich Richard Petri on the Texas frontier of the 1850s differed greatly from his native Dresden in Saxony, Germany. Along with many of his countrymen, Petri and his family had immigrated to Texas in search of a new, freer life. Although Petri lived in Texas but a scant seven years before his early death, the legacy of his work?the sketches and paintings preserved in this volume? lends a sense of concreteness to a vanished frontier and provokes a feeling of intimacy for a moment long since fled. He painted sensitive portraits of his family and friends and recorded many homely scenes of pioneer life in and around Fredericksburg. He was especially fascinated by the natives of this land, and he sketched and painted the Indians with affection, good humor, and skill. His Indian works document clearly, precisely, and compassionately the physical appearance, clothing, adornment, and life of these diverse and colorful people. Petri depicted Indians very differently than the old and outworn stereotype would have them portrayed. Nowhere among his works can one find the fiendish savage skulking around the pioneer cabin, waiting for the opportunity to steal the horses, rape the women, scalp the men, and kill or kidnap the children. Instead there are Indians and settlers engaged in casual and friendly conversations, here an Indian child eating a melon, there Indian youths spraddled languidly on their ponies. Petri's works constitute superb pictorial evidence of the amicable relationship between German settlers and Indians, challenge the old image of what Indians were like, and so add another kind of dimension to the continuing reinterpretation of this nation's past and its peoples. In this unusual blend of biography, art history, conventional history, and cultural anthropology, William Newcomb assembles most of the available biographical data and weaves in a rich body of interpretive background material pertaining to both Germany and Texas. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by both authors, Newcomb and Carnahan, on the title page. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover; quarto; gray cloth; silver gilt spine titles on black; 240 pp.; with 35 color and 28 b/w plates; very slight foxing to back of dustjacket and topedge of text-block, else clean and crisp. Protected with an archival Brodart cover. Uncommon thus. Inscribed by Authors.

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