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Wharton Esherick : the journey of a creative mind / Mansfield Bascom.
- Title
- Wharton Esherick : the journey of a creative mind / Mansfield Bascom.
- Author
- Bascom, Mansfield.
- Publication
- New York ; London : Abrams, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N6537.E83 B37 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 275 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 x 30 cm.
- Summary
- Wharton Esherick (1887- 1970) lived to create. He found his true voice in sculpture, working primarily in local woods he gathered from the forest surrounding his home and studio in rural Pennsylvania. The spiritual father of the contemporary studio furniture movement in America, he pioneered the way for successive generations of woodworking artists to develop their original designs. His work blurs the traditional distinctions between sculpture and furniture, form and function. Written by Esherick's son-in-law, this book features photographs of Esherick's most important artworks as well as the woodland studio he designed, built, and furnished over the course of several decades.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 270) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1887-1912: growing up in Philadelphia -- 1912-1920: the romantic years -- 1920-1927: expanding horizons -- 1927-1932: experiments in expressionism -- 1932-1939: in search of a new direction -- 1939-1956: recognition -- 1956-1970: organic forms -- The legacy.
- ISBN
- 9780810995758 (hbk.)
- 0810995751 (hbk.)
- 9780810997752 (museum ed.)
- 0810997754 (museum ed.)
- OCLC
- 645674924
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library