James Swan, Cha-Tic of the Northwest Coast: Drawings and Watercolors from the Franz & Kathryn Stenzel Collection of Western American Art Tapa dura - 2003

New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2003 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT. 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; light rubbing to panels. Maroon cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Gray endpapers. 160 pp 4to. When James Swan arrived on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington Territory in 1852, he proceeded to sketch what he saw and accumulated in three decades a body of delicate, descriptive art that records his travels from Shoalwater Bay to the Queen Charlotte Islands as well as his close relationships with numerous native American artists of the region. Dwellings, Indian totems, crests, tattoos, and ceremonies; flora sea-life; an shorescapes preserve a distinctive visual record of Northwestern frontier life in the 19th century. 115 drawings from his collection are reproduced here, nearly all of them for the first time. A clean… Leer más

New Haven, Connecticut: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University / University Press Of New England, 2003. Hardcover. New/Sealed. maroon cloth boards. 160 pgs w/ color illustrations. tan, pictorial dustjacket w/ black printing. "In November 1852 James Swan moved to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington Territory. Fascinated by the Indian communities he encountered, Swan spent the remainder of his life studying their art, material culture, and history. The author of several books, he became the Smithsonian Institution's principal agent in the Northwest, collecting natural history and ethnographic objects from Gray's Harbor through the Alaskan panhandle. He lived among the Makah Indians of Neah Bay where he taught school and was among the first Americans to visit the Haida villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands." "Known as an avid correspondent and diarist (he kept a daily journal for the last 41 years of his life), Swan was also a talented draftsman who sketched many of the people he… Leer más

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University Press of New England. New. 2003. Hardcover. 0845731475 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 160 pp. With 124 ills. (119 col. ). 25 x 32 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- .