The Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters: First Fifty Years, 1928-1978

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full beige cloth boards. Limited edition, number 463/1000. 11 1/8"w x 11 1/4"h. Unpaginated. Previous owner's name inside. A history of the organization and its founders, followed by reproductions by members. "It must be noted that by no means all of the members who ever belonged to the group are represented here. Selection was made primarily with an eye to highlighting those qualiteis which are truly unique to the Northwest art scene." Each artist included is represented with a color reproduction, a paragraph biography, and small b&w photo portrait of the artist. Signed or inscribed by the following artists on their pages: Frank R. Bigford, Lymon W. Bosserman, Roger Broer, Rudolph Bundas, Irwin Caplan, Herbert E. Carlson, Jess Dan Cauthorn, David M. Checkley, Robert Dexter Coe, Harold Craig, Sam Dimico, Jack Fellows, Byron Fish, Philip N. Flash, Ray H. Gerring, Marlowe Hartung, John R. Holmes, Ernest Horswill, Frank Kendrickson, Joseph Kilpatrick, Keith A. Kinsman, John Lee, Manfred Lindenberger, Robert T. Matthiesen, Warren McCallister, Alden Metcalf, Kenneth S. Miller, Eric W. Pardy, Henry Thos. Platz III, William F. Reese, James G. Scott, Richard F. Sewell, Gary L. Shinn, James T. Smith, Robert H. Wandesforde, Charles D. Webster, Thomas W. Wells, William Harold Werrbach, Brom Wikstrom, Robert C. Wikstrom, Glenn Wilson, Obituary clipping of James Edward Peck taped to his page.