Author: BERARDI, MARIANNE
Title: Discovering Margot Peet : the artist and the art world of Kansas City / Marianne Berardi and Henry Adams
Description: Chevy Chase. MD : Posterity Press 2010. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 242 pages; x. 242 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Subjects: Peet. Margot. -- 1903-1995.Painters -- United States -- Biography. Benton. Thomas Hart. -- 1889-1975 -- Friends and associates. Art. American -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- 20th century. Margot Peet and 20th-century Kansas City fit hand in glove. Or to put it precisely. the city s cultural climate in both its hothouse society and hardscrabble nonconformity provided the perfect environment for this gifted woman who overcame heartbreak. created art for the love of it. and become an unforgettable painter with a brilliant color sense and starched sensitivity. Both the artist and her milieu are revealed in this double-barreled book of singular distinction. which was printed in exquisite color by a press in Hong Kong. Designed by the distinguished bookman Robert L. Wiser who has produced prizewinning volumes for Library of Congress. Smithsonian and Freer/Sackler Galleries as well as for Chronicle. Abrams. Abbeville. Rizzoli and other trade publishers. Discovering Margot Peet features 150 illustrations. a bibliography and full index.Weight in Kg appr.:

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