1952 Improvisations: Artists Equity Masquerade Ball, Hotel Astor, May 15. Spring Fantasia

New York: Artists Equity Association, New York Chapter, 1952.

Price: $2,500.00

Softcover. First edition. Thick quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated. Plastic spiral bound illustrated wrappers. Owner's name, age-toning, and small tears on the wrappers, a few pages are a little pulled from the spirals, but overall this is a nice, very good copy. Copy number 1570 of 2000 numbered copies. Very uncommon thick program with illustrations printed rectos only. Consisting almost entirely of ads from New York businesses, illustrated mostly in black and white on colored paper by different artists including Milton Avery, Max Weber, Ben Shahn, Chaim Gross, John Myers, Elias Newman, Alexander Alpert, Raphael Soyer, Isaac Soyer, Moses Soyer, Josef Presser, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Henry Billings, Bertram Goodman, Gerrit Hondius, Lewis Daniel, John Groth, T. Lux Feininger, Reginald Marsh, Leo Lionni, Jack Levine, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Gwathmey, Georges Schreiber, Antonio Frasconi, Sam Adler, Alex Redein, Hans Hoffman, and Clara Klinghoffer. Includes additional color lithographs by Chaim Gross, Adolf Dehn, and Milton Avery. *OCLC* locates one copy at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Item #332024

item image

Item #332024 1952 Improvisations: Artists Equity Masquerade Ball, Hotel Astor, May 15. Spring Fantasia. Elias NEWMAN.
1952 Improvisations: Artists Equity Masquerade Ball, Hotel Astor, May 15. Spring Fantasia
1952 Improvisations: Artists Equity Masquerade Ball, Hotel Astor, May 15. Spring Fantasia
1952 Improvisations: Artists Equity Masquerade Ball, Hotel Astor, May 15. Spring Fantasia