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The Story of Geronimo (Paperback)
Jim Kjelgaard; Edited by Enid La Monte Meadowcroft; Illustrated by Charles Banks Wilson
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R749
Discovery Miles 7 490
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The Story Of Geronimo (Hardcover)
Jim Kjelgaard; Edited by Enid La Monte Meadowcroft; Illustrated by Charles Banks Wilson
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R1,083
Discovery Miles 10 830
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Although known primarily for his illustrations, murals, and
portraits, Charles Banks Wilson things of himself chiefly as a
lithographer. ""Lithography,"" he says, ""is what made an artist of
me."" The 118 lithographs collected here, each reproduced from an
original print in the artist's own collection, represent fifty
years of experience in the medium.True to the American regionalist
tradition that influenced him, Wilson has used his own surroundings
as subject matter, producing an intensely personal record of his
own time and place-an Oklahoma of varied landscapes and of farmers,
cowboys, miners, and Indians. The prints reproduced here are a
representative sample of Wilson's long and prolific career in
lithography. Well represented are the Indian subjects for which he
is most famous, including the entire Tel Little Indians series, the
Plains Madonna, and portraits from the Search for the Purebloods
series. Several rural landscapes, immensely popular among
collectors, are included, as are prints based on Wilson's best work
in other media: book illustrations (of J. Frank Dobie's The
Mustangs, for example), murals (the Oklahoma State Capitol murals,
for instance), and portraits (including Will Rogers, Jim Thorpe,
and Sequoyah). Design and printing techniques are inseparable
components of stone lithography, and Wilson's works embody the
skills of both artist and craftsman. His descriptions of the
lithographic process are of a discipline demanding patience,
foresight, dexterity, and the sheer physical strength to manipulate
a printing stone that may weigh as much as two hundred pounds. The
first published collection of Charles Banks Wilson's lithographs,
this unique, personal documentary includes a biographical sketch of
the artist, annotations for each print, and a description of stone
lithography by the artist himself. It will be judged an important
contribution to contemporary art studies, and all collectors and
admirers of stone lithographs, particularly those of Charles Bands
Wilson, will find it a valuable reference.
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