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Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. EARLY AMERICAN PORTRAITURE.

New York; privately printed: 1930. Limited to 250 copies.

Frederic Fairchild Sherman (1874-1940) was a well-heeled collector and the 
editor-publisher of 'Art in America', who also published 
beautifully-printed, extremely limited edition studies of American art and 
artists in the 19-teens, 20s and 30s. This title contains a selection of 
essays on various aspects of American portrait painting which "are 
concerned chiefly in a modest way with an attempt to critically estimate 
the artistic merits of the work of the various painters discussed". Sherman 
notes-

"At a time when an attaché of one of our greatest museums can afford to 
question the date and therefore the authenticity of a signed portrait, 
because of the cut of the sitter's coat, it seems pertinent that someone 
should offer something in the line of serious criticism and evaluation of 
the work of our early portraitists, based upon artistic criteria rather 
than governed by slavish attention to the never definite dating determined 
by costume".

Indeed. Having fired that broadside, Sherman proceeds with essays on 
Stuart's portraits of Washington, portraits of Washington from life, a 
watercolor of Major Pitcairn by Paul Revere, minor portraitists of the 
first half of the 19th century, John Trumbull, Nathaniel Jocelyn, Samuel L. 
Waldo & William Jewett, Samuel F.B. Morse, Richard Jennys, Asher Durand as 
a portrait painter, Robert Fulton's portraits, Copley as a portrait 
miniaturist, and Frank Duveneck.

Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 65 pages plus 79 b/w illustrations; blue boards with a 
parchment spine, as issued. A little light wear, but overall a very nice, 
clean, crisp copy. [06763] $175.00


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