WIGHT, Frederick S. with John I. H. Baur and Duncan Phillips

Morris Graves [INSCRIBED by the artist]

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. (5), 61, (3). Color frontis.: "Young Gander Ready for Flight." Foreword by John I. H. Bauer. A note about Graves' technique by Duncan Phillips. Illustrated throughout with color and b&w reproductions of Graves' work. With a chronology, a list of awards and exhibitions, works in public collections, and a selected bibliography. Bound in mustard yellow boards with black lettering stamped on cover and spine, tape shadows to endpapers, tiny bumps to corners. Dust jacket with $3.50 price present, light soiling to rear panel.

Inscribed "For Glenn Daugherty/Morris Graves/Portland Oct 2,1962" Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #12245

In the 1950s Graves grew his beard to ensure against gainful employment in the then-button-downed "real" world. A photograph of the bearded Graves is featured on the rear panel of the dust jacket. This monograph, lavish treatment for a Seattle painter who came to prominence in the 1940s, is also the first major tribute to the artist. Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Price: $1,000.00