A USABLE PAST AMERICAN FOLK ART COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

A USABLE PAST AMERICAN FOLK ART COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 2016 1ST SHRINK WRAP. Quoting from the flap of the dust jacket: This catalogue presents new research on the Colby College Museum of Art s important collection of paintings-sculptures-needleworks-and works on paper by self-trained artists working primarily in the eastern part of the United States during the long nineteenth century. Please find then: A Usable Past American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art edited by Lauren Lessing and essays by a wide variety of specialist-experts and collectors. This large hard cover book (9 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches 163 pages) was published by the Colby College Museum of Art dated 2016 to coincide with an exhibition of the same name and thus apparently a First Edition. The book is bound in dark red cloth with gilt titles on the spine and protected by a colorful pictorial dust jacket. This copy is still in the shrink wrap, but I have a personal copy as well which has allowed me to show and tell you what the book includes. It is richly illustrated with color plates throughout. Condition: As it is still in the shrink wrap and shows no bumping to the corners or spine tips, it is in near fine or like new condition.…