Description

This is a very good hardcover copy in blue cloth covers with titles printed in yellow. Lower right corners front and back a bit bumped. Very clean inside and out, no marks to the covers the text or illustrations. Essays by A.Conger Goodyear, Holger Cahill, Stuart Davis, Eugene Speicher, Jonas Lie, John Gregory, Paul Manship, William Zorach, John Taylor Arms, Anne Goldthwaite and Hugo Gellert. This catalogue was prepared to accompany the exhibition of modern American art at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Organized by the Gallery of American Art Today and many other arts groups around the country. A wide range of styles were included from realism through abstract art. Works were lent to the exhibition by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, among several other institutions. Alphabetical indices of painters, sculptors and graphic artists. About 1200 works were included in the exhibition, most illustrated in black & white. 12" high X 9" wide, 342 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.