The Art Nouveau crafts of the Newcomb Style are delineated in a comprehensive and authoratative history in this book entitled Louisiana's Art Nouveau: The Crafts of the Newcomb Style . The volume covers the various crafts of the Newcomb Guild of Newcomb College in New Orleans from 1895 to 1945. The widely-known Newcomb pottery, as well as the needlework, metal, and leathercrafts, jewelry, bookbinding, blockprinting, and calligraphy, are lavishily illustrated in both color and black and white photographs. Biographies of the ...
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The Art Nouveau crafts of the Newcomb Style are delineated in a comprehensive and authoratative history in this book entitled Louisiana's Art Nouveau: The Crafts of the Newcomb Style . The volume covers the various crafts of the Newcomb Guild of Newcomb College in New Orleans from 1895 to 1945. The widely-known Newcomb pottery, as well as the needlework, metal, and leathercrafts, jewelry, bookbinding, blockprinting, and calligraphy, are lavishily illustrated in both color and black and white photographs. Biographies of the directors, ceramists, and craftsmen along with their ciphers, are provided to enable collectors to identify and authenticate Newcomb Crafts. The book, featuring a foreward by the New York Times art critic John Canaday, is co-authored by Suzanne Ormond and Mary E. Irvine. Ormond, a native of New Orleans, has been a potter craftsmen for many years and is the owner of a pottery manufacturing bussiness. She became interested in the crafts of the Newcomb Style while a student of the late Katherine Choi at the Newcomb Art School and is widely recognized as an authority on the subject. Irvine, has long been associated with Newcomb College, first as a student and later in has association with Sadie Irvine, an outstanding craftsman at the college ofr more than fifty years.
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Add this copy of Louisianas Art Nouveau: the Crafts of the Newcomb Style to cart. $18.68, very good condition, Sold by Solr Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Skokie, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Pelican Publishing Company.
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G+ (Very good, clean and tight interior. DJ has a few small tears along bottom edge; cloth cover of book is slightly soiled. ) Cream boards, white dj with color illustration. BW illus., 32 pp. of color plates. "The Newcomb crafts--pottery, needlework, metal and leather crafts, jewelry, bookbinding, block-printing, and calligraphy--evolved after Josephine LeMonnier Newcomb established H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for Women in 1887 as a part of Tulane University." (dj) Includes many excellent examples of pottery as well as lesser known objects, including prints and textiles.
Add this copy of Louisiana? S Art Nouveau: the Crafts of the Newcomb to cart. $55.15, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Pelican Publishing.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 9x11 1/2. 182 page hardcover with color and b/w illustrations. Short biographies of the Directors, Ceramists and Craftsmen at rear. Dust jacket (white with color photo of a pottery oil lamp) is bright and crisp, but very lightly soiled. Full off-white cloth exterior with title in copper on spine. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
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