[Rarebooks] FS: Fred. A. Demmler- Soldier / Artist in our New Catalog

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“Immortal Youth. A Study in the Will to Create. A Memoir of Fred. A. 
Demmler.”

By Lucien Price.
Published in Boston by McGrath-Sherrill Press in 1919.

DISCUSSION:  A rather polychromatic remembrance of a Pittsburgh-based 
portrait painter who was killed in the last moments of World War One. 
Fred "Fritz" Demmler studied under Tarbell and Benson at the Boston 
Museum of Fine Arts School before returning to his native Pittsburgh and 
embarking on a successful and promising career as a portraitist. 
American involvement in the First World War and the draft intervened, 
and Demmler shipped to France as part of a machine gun unit, attaining 
the rank of sergeant in a very short time before being killed during an 
attack just a week before the Armistice.

The author, Junius Lucien Price (1883-1964), became friends with Demmler 
while Demmler was at the Museum of Fine Arts School, and the two 
remained close until Demmler's death. Price was a popular author of non 
fiction books as well as a staff writer for The Boston Evening 
Transcript, the Boston Globe, and The Atlantic Monthly.

This book has the ownership signature of artist Russell Cheney. Cheney 
(1881-1945) was a New England-born painter who studied at the Art 
Students League of New York and served as its president for two years. 
His work is held in many private and public collections including the 
Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Art. He was 
also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, the San 
Francisco Art Society, and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

DESCRIPTION and CONDITION NOTES: Hardcover. 6"x9", 53 ages, tipped-in 
color plate. Covers with some wear, spot on title page, some internal 
light soil and foxing.

PRICE: $85

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