1990, Thomas Hart Benton : Drawing from Life by Henry Adams, 1st ADAMS SIGNED

Description: This book was purchased from the estate of William Christensberry in Washington DC. On this photographer from Wikipedia: "William Andrew Christenberry Jr. (November 5, 1936 – November 28, 2016) was an American photographer, painter, sculptor, and teacher who drew inspiration from his childhood in Hale County, Alabama.[1] Christenberry focused extensively on architecture, abandoned structures, nature, and extensively studied the psychology and effects of place and memory. He is best known for his haunting compositions of landscapes, signs, and abandoned buildings in his home state. Christenberry is also considered a pioneer of colored photography as an art form; he was especially encouraged in the medium by the likes of Walker Evans and William Eggleston." INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK WAS A HAND-SIGNED LETTER BY BOOK AUTHOR HENRY ADAMS TO WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY, AND HENRY ADAMS ALSO INSCRIBED AND SIGNED THE BOOK. See listing photos for this letter and the signature on the title page. The book is in NEAR FINE CONDITION. First Edition published by the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, and Abbeville Press. The dust jacket with faint edge wear, very clean and like new. Boards pristine, no further marks in 207 clean and solidly bound pages. On Henry Adams from his website: "Henry Adams is a graduate of Harvard College, and received his M.A. and PH.D. from Yale, where he received the Frances Blanshard Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in art history. In 1985, he won the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize of the College Art Association, the first time this had been awarded to an Americanist or a Museum Curator. In 1989, when he was a curator at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, William Jewell College awarded him its distinguished service medal for his services to Kansas City and the Midwest. In 2001, when he was a curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art, he received the Northern Ohio Live Visual Arts Award for the best art exhibition of the year in Northern Ohio. In April 2010, The Beauty of Damage, a Tom Ball/Telos Production film that he initiated and scripted with Tom Ball won the Kodak Best Ohio Short Film at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival. In June 2010 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Cleveland Arts Prize. On September 26, 2015 he received the Artadmiration Award from ARTneo in Cleveland, and was honored with an exhibition of work by artists he has championed and a publication of excerpts from his writings on them. In the spring of 2017 he received the Baker Nord Award for the Humanities bestowed on the most outstanding scholar in the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University." On Thomas Hart Benton from Wikipedia: "Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. His work is strongly associated with the Midwestern United States, the region in which he was born and which he called home for most of his life. He also studied in Paris, lived in New York City for more than 20 years and painted scores of works there, summered for 50 years on Martha's Vineyard off the New England coast, and also painted scenes of the American South and West." B33

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