prefaced james wallen (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. SIGNED. Folio [45 cm] With a folded leaf containing the title page and preface page followed by twenty loose plates (illustrations mounted to thin card leaves). The plates are 14" x 18". Housed in a portfolio of 3/4 cloth with decoratively patterned paper over boards and string ties along the top, bottom, and fore edges. An illustrated paper label is mounted to the front board, and there is a soiled blank label on the backstrip. The portfolio shows some wear, including a few small areas of abrasion to the surface and the periodic exposure of the underlying boards along the edges. Some uneven toning to plates. One plate with numerous small abraded areas to the reverse along the edges. Mounts occasionally a trifle wavy. At time of cataloging, OCLC lists no institutional copies. Scarce. Inscribed, in the year of publication, by Adolf Hentschel on the copyright page: "In appreciation of her kindness / and understanding - I dedicate this book / to Mrs. Hedwig Benedict / Adolf Hentschel / August 1932." Hedwig Benedict is the subject of one of the illustrated plates. Hedwig was the wife of New York artist and photographer Dr. Albert R. Benedict, who is known for his photograph of the Flatiron Building. He married Hedwig Winter of Katonah, N.Y. in 1917. Jewelry designer, artist, and poet Adolf Jacob Andrew Hentschel was born in the mountains of Siebenbürgen (Romania) in 1887. James Wallen writes in his preface: "He studied in the night school of the National Academy in New York, under Edgar Melville Ward. For the most part he has been his own teacher. Mr. Ward gave him technique. The world brought him lessons of disillusion, and in the cloisters of his own personality he learned to distinguish the place of one thing in the scheme of all. "Hentschel is simple but wise. He is direct but subtle. Study his drawings and you will learn that his work measures to John Galsworthy's rule for a successful work of art, - 'no deficiency, no excess' - every line goes somewhere- and that somewhere is at the heart of things.".