MODERN PRINTS & DRAWINGS

A Guide to a Better Understanding
of Modern Draughtsmanship

SELECTED WITH AN EXPLANATORY TEXT BY
Paul J. Sachs
PROFESSOR OF FINE ARTS,
EMERITUS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
HONORARY CURATOR OF DRAWINGS,
FOGG MUSEUM OF ART

WITH A PREFACE BY
ALFRED H. BARR JR.

1954
ALFRED A. KNOPF
NEW YORK

Hardcover, 261 pages

A great book if you love drawings by some of the most dfmous and talented artist from the 18th century to the mid-20th century, with many well-known names and others perhaps not as well-known but no less talented.

The book contains works by Ernest Barlach, Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beckmann, George Bellows, Peter Blume, Umberto Boccioni, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Rodolphe Bresdin, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, Mary Cassat, Julio Castellanos, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Charlot, Giorgio Di Chirico, Lovis Corinth, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Salvador Dali, Honore Daumier, Jacques Louis David, Edgar Degas, Ferdinand Delacroix, Charles Demuth, Andre Derain, Otto Dix, Raoul Dufy, Thomas Eakins, James Ensor, Lyon Feininger, Jean Louis Forain, Antonio Frasconi, Paul Gaugin, Jean Louis Gericault, William Glackens, Vincent Van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Juan Gris, George Grosz, S. W. Hayter, Erich Heckel, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Wassily Kandsinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oscar Kokoschka, Kathe Kollwitz, Edward Lear, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Mailloi, Edouard Manet, John Marin, Marino Marini, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, J. F. Millet, Joan Miro, Amedeo Modigliani, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, Giorgio Moriandi, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Jose Orozco, Samuel Palmieri, Pablo Picasso, John Piper, Camillie Pissarro, Jose Posada, Maurice Prendergast, Odilon Redon, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Dieggo Rivera, Auguste Rodin, Georges Rouault, Henri Rousseau, John Singer Sargent, Andre Segonzac, Kurt Seligmann, Georges Pierre Seurat, Gino Severini, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Walter Sickert, John Sloan, Eugene Speicher, Graham Sutherland, Pavel Tchelitchew, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Felix Valloton, Jacques Villon, Jean-Edouard Vuillard, Max Weber, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Andrew Wyeth, as well as others.

Whew! That a LOT of artists and a LOT of prints. (286 reproductions in all.) There is no way a few sample photos shown here can exemplify the contents. There are also brief comments or captions accompany each plate to illustrate the historic thread that links them by the author.Besides reproductions of their work in this book, there are also very brief biographies of each, and It concludes with a valuable chapter explaining "Technical Processes. " An excellent reference volume.

BOOK DESCRIPTION/CONDITION: No jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Peach colored boards with design in blind on front, black cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. Top edge black. Corner wear and spots of edge wear. Hinges a little starting but binding good. Interior very good. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2" x 1"