Unidentified Man: Signed (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. This is a history of people and events at the University of California, Berkeley, by Garff Wilson. Wilson was the Chairman of Public Ceremonies and Protocol Officer on the campus for thirty-five years. This gave him opportunity to meet kings, queens, princes, princesses, presidents, and many other notable figures. Here he tells many of the stories of their visits to UC Berkeley as well as about some of the Berkeley people who helped to make it notable. Included are photographs, illustrations, appendices, and an index. This copy is clean and solid. It is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, inscribed on the half-title page. Cameron Corlett-Teasdale and William Corlett (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Kruell, Gustav. 1 vols. Stowe image 9-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches, 14 x 11 inches overall. Gustav Kruell (1843-1907) was born in Germany and established himself as an engraver in Stuttgart. He came to the US in 1873, and quickly obtained commissions from the leading illustrated periodicals. He fell under the artistic influence of the famed engraver W.J. Linton, with the result that his portraits took on a clarity and liveliness uncommon in his day. His most famous work is probably the Lincoln of 1891; the following year he produced the superb Stowe portrait offered here (Stowe died in 1896). His Autograph Letter, signed, written from East Orange, NJ to J.R. Mitchel conveying the proof, reads, "Your favor enclosing check if $15.00 for Portrait of Beecher Stowe came to me today--I send the same by express with this. I hope the picture will not disappoint you for I sought for no effect but tried to make every one see into this great woman who could [be?] so calm in a time of greatest excitements as only a true woman can do. Very truly yours, G. Kruell." Also included is a fine 5 x 7 proof portrait of an unidentified man--both it and the Stowe portrait are signed in the plate and in pencil below. A SUPERB IMAGE AND ARTIST'S COMMENTARY. Scribner's Magazine, February 1895, pp. 186-88 Stowe engraving with almost imperceptible tear without loss, others fine 1 vols. Stowe image 9-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches, 14 x 11 inches overall. Signed.…

Bacon, Peggy. PORTRAIT OF AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN. Charcoal on paper, not dated. Signed, and with illegible notations at both top and bottom of the sheet. 12 5/8 x 9 1/8 inches. Losses to the sheet edges and corners, and with tape remnants at the edges, some visible on the recto. A lively portrait of a gentleman in a sweater and cap, seated in front of a bar or countertop on which is a bowl of fruit and another object, and behind which is a mirror in which the back of the subject's head is reflected. Provenance, the artist through her son Alexander Brook.…