South, Will, Jean Stern and William H. Gerdts — Guy Rose: American Impressionist
Oakland, California , The Oakland Museum, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Authoritative artist exhibit catalogue, a reference monograph paying due and just homage to the California impressionist painter Guy Orlando Rose. Rose studied in Giverny, France, with Claude Monet and with Frederick Carl Frieseke. Rose's landscapes and coastal scenes of Southern and Central California. The monograph accompanies an exhibition organized jointly by the Oakland Museum of California and The Irvine Museum. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the folio-sized, glossy card-stock wraps. Foreword by Joan Irvine Smith, Preface by Harvey L. Jones, then an Acknowledgements sectuib and an essay, "A Rose Family Perspective: Building a Collection," by Roy Rose, "Guy Rose: An Introduction," by William H. Gerdts, the lead essay, "Guy Rose (1867-1925): An American Impressionist," by Will South, another essay, "Guy Rose and the Los Angeles Art Community," by Jean Stern, a biographical chronology by Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, and then augmented by a Selected Bibliography and an Index. Augmented with 30 black-and-white and another 130 color illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine