[Rarebooks] FS: "William Wendt and His Work" LA: 1926. Inscr. to noted L.A. architect Frank Meline

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(ART) Stendahl Art Galleries. WILLIAM WENDT AND HIS WORK. With Articles by Anthony Andersen... Fred S. Hogue... Alma May Cook... Arthur Millier. Los Angeles: Stendahl Art Galleries, [at] The Ambassador Hotel. 1926. 8vo. 94pp. including 80 half-page half-tone photographs of Wendt's oil paintings, each with descriptive text. Frontispiece portrait of Wendt, inscribed in ink at bottom, "To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meline. William Wendt." Orig. green cloth, titles stamped in gold, a bit faded. Last plate with some foxing, otherwise a very nice copy.                        $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
The inscription by Wendt is to noted Los Angeles architect Frank L. Meline (1875-1944).  Wendt was the most important early California impressionist painter.

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