Traces of Forgotten Places - An Artist's Thirty-year Exploration and Celebration of Texas as it Was (Paperback)

For more than half a century, Austin artist Don Collins crisscrossed Texas looking for traces of the past. Most often he has found them in a variety of old buildings. Drawings of these places, thirteen a year, appeared for three decades in popular calendars issued in Austin by the Miller Blueprint Company. The publications themselves have become collectors' items.In order to prepare his annual calendars, Don frequented less-traveled byways and often forgotten places. When he discovered that he had begun retracing his routes, he bought a stack of Texas county road maps. The artist marked the courses that he had taken so that he would be sure to see new country on each subsequent foray: ""I would seek out roads that followed the path of least resistance, often up a creek. I would follow them and usually find an old structure."" In time he expanded his geographical range to more distant areas of the state: ""I wanted to go there and see what it's like.""In this book, Collins has chosen seventy from more than three hundred works of art that he created for the Miller Blueprint calendars. The carefully detailed renderings record buildings from farmhouses to industrial plants, from shanties to mansions. Through these pages viewers tour the state both visually and through the artist's own recollections about the remarkable range of places he has recorded with pencil and paper.

General

Imprint:	Texas Christian University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2008
First published:	March 2008
Authors:	Don Collins
Editors:	T Lindsay Baker
Dimensions:	216 x 279 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-87565-361-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-87565-361-8
Barcode:	9780875653617

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