scott gentling (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Unmarked boards with "straight" edge-corners; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75" - 12.75" tall); White dust jacket with illustration of birds, and title in black and red lettering on a yellow background; 2001, University of Texas Press; 223 pages; "Of Birds and Texas," by Scott Gentling, et al.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 223 pages. 13.00x10.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Fort Worth: Gentling Editions, 1986. Limited first edition (no. 37 of 525). Broadsheet folio (711mm x 558mm) Text sheets and 50 color offset lithographed plates laid in loose to two cloth portfolios (as issued). Presented in a cloth clam-shell box with a paper label. Corners bumped, cover soiled. Twin brothers, Scott (1942-2011) and Stuart (1942-2006) Gentling, were lifelong artistic collaborators and contributors to the study of Texas bird life. With this encyclopedic survey, they sought to emulate naturalist/artists like John J. Audubon. They shared an interest in nature and history in their representational art. The Gentling brothers' original paintings for this work are in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth,Texas. John Graves' accompanying essay is entitled "Recollections of a Texas Bird Glimpser." Scott Gentling painted George W. Bush's portrait c. 2000 for the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. From the collection of William S. Reese (1955-2018), who was one of the great Americana booksellers. His firm continues to trade in New Haven. After his death, Christie's New York sold his private collection (24,25 May 2022; the present item was lot 143).