Indian Paintings & White Patrons
Albuqueque; (1971): University of New Mexico Press. First Edition. Quarto. Item #012839
238p. index. Beautifully designed by Helen Gentry of Santa Fe illustrated with one hundred reproductions of Indian art work, watercolors, oils, carvings, beaded hides, rugs, pottery, eight in color. A work where the author shows how much Indian art work became designed with the white collector in mine. While some would argue work done in the early 20th Century lacked authenticity, he shows how the native American artists impulses overcame pure economic matters. Bound in white linen over boards, lettered in red, spine lettering red.Near fine in food pictorial dust jacket rubbed, light chipping head.
Price: $65.00