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Yesterday in Chester County art : sponsored by the Chester County Art Association and the School Board of West Chester

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks VoC* .399
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chester County Art Association
Contributor:
West Chester, Pa School Board
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Art--Pennsylvania--Chester Co.
Art.
Artists--Pennsylvania--Chester Co.
Artists.
Art--Chester County (Pa.).
Artists, American--Chester County (Pa.).
Artists, American.
Physical Description:
[62] p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
[West Chester, PA] : Art Centre, 1936.
Contents:
Address to his students / Benjamin West
The golden age of Chester county art / Christian Brinton
Benjamin West in his historical significance / Fiske Kimball
Philip Derrick, printer and artist / P.F. Cope
Thomas Buchanan Read, the odyssey of an artist / H.S. Borneman
On the art of painting / Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor's artistic side / Anne B.L. Polk
William Marshall Swayne, Chester county's sculptor of Lincoln / A.C. Myers
Wilmer Worthington Thomson, editor and painter / Henry Pleasants, jr
Our own George Cope / Henry Pleasants, jr
A Quaker illustrator, William T. Smedley / Christian Brinton
Findings and gleanings concerning the Art centre / H.T. Price.
Notes:
"First impression, limited to 500 copies ... Printed for the Centaur press ... Philadelphia, Pa., by Horace F. Temple, inc., West Chester, Pa."
"Cover design by N.C. Wyeth, drawing for title page by Andrew Wyeth, litograph of the Art Centre by Peter Hurd."

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