Smith glenn robert kenner (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. near fine. First. With b/w photos and color illustrations. 108 pages. Oblong 4to, off-white glossy boards, d.w. New York: Museum of American Folk Art, (1993). First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper, spine lightly sunned with minor wear to ends. Ellis Ruley (illustrator).…

Zustand: FINE. First printing. The story of a self-taught African American artist who lived in Norwich, Connecticut from 1882 until his mysterious death in 1959, and also the story of the collector, Glenn Smith, who happened upon one of Ruley's paintings, and spent years tracking down his story, and some o f his other works, to produce this book. Illustrated with photographs related to Ruley's life and with beautiful full-color reproductions of his paintings. Large format. Fine in fine dust jacket.…

Crown Publishers, New York. 1993. First edition. Square 4to hardback with DW. Illustrated. A lovely copy with slightly soiled boards in a worn wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; 108 pp. ; illustrated ; 62 color plates ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0517590700 :; 9780517590706 LCCN: 92-40230 ; LC: ND237.R729; Dewey: 759.13 ; OCLC: 27068076 ; by Glenn Robert Smith with Robert Kenner ; preface by Barbara A. Hudson ; foreword by Robert Farris Thompson ; introduction by Gerard C. Wertkin ; art study essay by Stacy Hollander and Lee Kogan of the Museum of American Folk Art. ; white boards with black lettering in color pictorial dustjacket ; dustjacket spine su nned ; ".[T]he fascinating and passionate story of this gifted self-taught African-American artist.lived in Norwich, Connecticut.owned a small house in an all-white neighborhood.and was found quite suspiciously dead on the road in front of h is house on January 16, 1959. Though many questions about Ruley were answered, just as many still remained.The book discusses Ruley's painting methods and his sources of inspiration. For example, he used common house paint as his medium and posterboard as his canvas, painting in a tiny room at the back of his house while he looked out on the animals in the woods.It is rare that a talent such as Ellis Ruley's remains a secret for so long.today his paintings are recognized as important w orks of outsider art by major collectors and museums across the country.all of his sixty-two known works [are] together for the first time."--dustjacket ; "The first published record of the work, life, and mysterious death of Ellis Ruley. Includes all of his 62 known works, plus an introduction by the director of the Museum of American Folk Art.Full color and black-and-white photographs." ; FINE/FINE. Book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some rubbing/creasing of DJ edges, still a nice copy. Author's gift inscription on FFEP reads "To my good friends Jim & Carol -- You're the best in MY BOOK. Oops, I forgot to mention it within.Love Ya!!! Glenn Robert Smith". Collectible copy. 26 x 26 cm., BW photos, full page color plates, 108 pages, ISBN 0517590700. Ellis Ruley (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s). Book.…