Charles Burchfield Paintings Private Kittinger Signed AKG Association Copy 1970

by Joseph S. Trovato

$176 · Offered by eBay

First edition · Signed

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } CHARLES BURCHFIELD: CATALOGUE OF PAINTINGS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Introduction by Joseph S. Trovato Published by Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 1970. First edition, 1 of 5000 copies designed by Jay P. Stewart. Very good trade paperback in illustrated wrappers. 4to, profusely illustrated with black-and-white reproductions throughout, 367 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH INTRODUCTION AUTHOR JOSEPH S. TROVATO AND EDWARD H. DWIGHT ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. WITH EXCEPTIONAL BUFFALO ART WORLD PROVENANCE: BOOKPLATE OF BETTY H. NORTON (wife of F. Paul Norton, Buffalo art collector whose family name graces the "F. Paul Norton and Frederic P. Norton Family Prints and Drawings Study Center" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum) AND LAID-IN MANUSCRIPT NOTE ON PRINTED "SHOPPING LIST OF / Jo Kittinger" STATIONERY READING "The Last Rays Chas. Burchfield 1920"—ALMOST CERTAINLY JOSEPHINE KITTINGER, WHO WITH HUSBAND SPENCER KITTINGER DONATED THE 1920 BURCHFIELD WATERCOLOR "THE LAST RAYS" TO THE ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY IN 1999 THROUGH THE LITTLE-KITTINGER FOUNDATION. This essential catalogue raisonné documents every known Burchfield painting by location as of 1970, compiled by Joseph S. Trovato for the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, which organized the major memorial exhibition following the artist's 1967 death. The laid-in manuscript note represents a rare glimpse into the collecting activities of Buffalo's tigh

• Publisher: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
• Year: 1970
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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