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Text/NEW & Bright. Orange linen boards/NF w/trace edge rubs. DJ/Poor; intact w/nips, chips to edges, losses to corner tips, & upper/low spine edges, and, surface soiling. Illustrated survey of American folk sculpture by New York-born, arts patron, collector, artist and author Jean Herzberg Lipman ( -1998), editor of Art in America magazine, wife to Howard Lipman (- 1992). The Lipmans donated many works to the Museum of American Folk Art, where she was a trustee, and to the Whitney Museum of American Art, where Howard Lipman was chairman and trustee. Jean Lipman's first book, ''American Primitive Painting'' is a standard reference work on American folk carving, painted antique furniture and decorative techniques as well as restoration. 193 pgs. in 8 chapters: 1, Ship Figueheads & Ornaments; 2, Weathervanes; 3, Cigar-Store Figures & Other Trade Signs; 4, Circus & Carrousel Carvings; 5, Toys; 6, Decoys; 7, Sculpture for House & Garden; and 8, Portraits. Seller Inventory # 018475
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Bibliographic Details
Title: AMERICAN FOLK ART IN WOOD, METAL & STONE : ...
Publisher: Pantheon Books, Meriden, CT
Publication Date: 1948
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: NEAR FINE
Dust Jacket Condition: Poor
Edition: First Edition, First Thus.
Book Type: Vintage/American Art
