Portrait photograph of Adolfo Best-Maugard

by Adolfo Best-Maugard, Carl Van Vechten

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1 vols. Apx. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Item #56179 Aldolfo Best-Maugard 1891-1964 was a Mexican painter and author of “An Approach to Creative Design” 1925 . He established and promoted a new drawing teaching method, based on popular art elements and on the study of pre-Columbian forms, that was part of the nationalistic environment of that time. The theory stated that with seven primary lines any natural form could be built. He later

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