Product Description
Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Nelson C.
White on the front flyleaf.
The standard monograph on Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921).
As a painter of portraits, figures, animals, and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, and his paintings are represented in major American art collections.
He is perhaps best known for his "angel" paintings, some of which use his children as models.
Small quarto: xxi, [3], 277, [3] pp.
with a color frontispiece and numerous illustrations, 3 in color, including the famous "Copperhead Snake on Dead Leaves" by Rockwell Kent and Abbott Thayer.
Original blue cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling and borders.
A very good copy.
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