Close Observation: Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church

Theodore E Stebbbins, Jr, Curator of American Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

This book is a Special Edition for Contributing Members of the Smithsonian National Associates in appreciation of their generous support. (see photo #4)

Fabulous find for the enthusiast of the Hudson River School of painters, the group of optimistic, realistic landscape painters who flourished during the mid-nineteenth century(1840-1875) of which Frederic E. Church was a leading painter. A fine gift for the collector of books on American artists.

Dimensions: 10 1/2 inches X 9 inches

                     110 pages 

Condition: Hardcover, boards are slightly warped, binding tight, pages clean. Book jacket has slight shelf wear.

Note: Original owner has inscribed the inside cover page for his family and the date. See photo #12

From the book jacket comments:

This book brings, for the first time, scholarly attention and the eye of the connoisseur to 112 of Church's best oil sketches, they are discussed and illustrated.

This book was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in 1978.

Please examine the photos, they are an important part of the description.

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