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Limited Edition: No. 994 of 1500, (1200 of which were for sale) Hard cover, 8vo, in half black cloth, gray paper-covered boards with the artist's initials in gilt to center. Titles in gilt to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marble effect endpapers. (x) 165 pp. Condition Very Good. Minor wear to joints at head of spine, and one area of stain to rear of spine,( i.e., not seen from the shelf). Within, the book is clean and still bright. Produced as a part of a Centennial celebration on the Vermont-born artist and teacher's birth in 1824. (He drowned in a pond on Appledore, part of the Isles of Shoals, in 1879.) A Harvard drop-out, Hunt travelled in Europe and the Middle East after his father's death, enabling the young artist to study his craft abroad. He would spend two years training under Jean-François Millet at The Barbizon art colony in Paris around 1850, eventually bringing his skills back to the United States. The book here concerns his fruitful Boston period, when Hunt was a much-sought-after portraitist and teacher, and contains statements made about his art, and many black and white reproductions of his work. His work is described as luminous, Romantic and inspired by the Barbizon school. There is a research library named after him at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he was a founding member of the museum school.
Ref: ART 8818
$55.00