MOVABLE MASKS & FIGURES OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST INDIANS (WPA PRINTED)
Bloomfield Hils, MI: Cranbrook Institute of Science, 1941. First Edition, Limited to 250 sets. Separate Images in Portfolio. One of 250 copies. Elephant folio cardboard binder 19 x 12 5/8 in. . [4]pp. French-fold text, accompanied by eighteen heavy card Serigraphs (13 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in.) (49 cm.) of Indian masks and carvings, after water color paintings by R. Inverarity, Introduction by Erna Gunther. Text printed in the Cloister Old Style typeface on Strathmore Ruftex paper. Illustrated with tissue-guarded serigraphs after watercolors by the author, and were printed by the Michigan Art and Craft Project of the WPA, on Antique Strathmore Cover .Enclosed in printed half-cloth chemise, with decoration and ribbon ties. Rubbing and shelfwear to extremities of portfolio.
A handsome and important work of ethnography, and an elusive example of fine printing associated with the WPA. Text a trifle dusty at extreme edges, otherwise a near fine copy, Three copies only located in WorldCat. Near Fine in Good Plus Cardboard and Cloth Portolio. Item #88489
Robert Bruce Inverarity (1909-1999) was an American artist, art educator, museum director, author, and anthropologist. He was the Washington State Director of the Federal Arts Project from 1936 to 1939 and the Washington Arts Project from 1939 to 1941, working with many noted Pacific Northwest artists.
Price: $550.00