91 “The Timelessness Of These Rocks And These Hills”: Signed Limited Edition Of Andrew Wyeth’s Paintings Of Pennsylvania And Maine 108(WYETH, Andrew) MERYMAN, Richard. Andrew Wyeth. Boston, 1969. Oblong folio, original half light blue reverse calf, clamshell box. $5800 Deluxe signed limited first edition, one of only 300 copies, with 165 full-page color and black-and-white reproductions of Wyeth’s paintings of Pennsylvania and Maine. In the tradition of his father, N.C. Wyeth, and the Brandywine artists, Andrew Wyeth achieved acclaim for his naturalistic portrayals of the Pennsylvania countryside and the seacoast of Maine. His watercolors and tempera paintings capture the essence of the two regions, while conveying a sense of loneliness and nostalgia. After the prints were completed and approved by Wyeth for this volume, the original plates were destroyed. Fine condition. “Snow-Capped Peaks And Gemlike Mountain Lakes”:1938 Signed Limited Edition Of Sierra Nevada Signed By Ansel Adams, One Of Only 500 Copies, With 50 Halftone Plates 109 ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail. Berkeley, 1938. Large folio, original ivory cloth. $12,500 Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Adams, who “realized in his pictures what Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry,” featuring 50 luminous mounted halftone prints including “Half Dome.” To Ansel Adams, the open vistas of the American West were “an event, an ephemeral, continuing drama. The protagonist of the drama is the light.” In the luminous images of Sierra Nevada, this superlative landscape photographer affirms his renown for elevating “the act of photography to a religious experience. He realized in his pictures what Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry: the uniqueness of American landscape and nature” (Icons of Photography, 96). Each separately mounted halftone print measures nine by seven inches. Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Plates clean and fine; text block expertly repaired, expert restoration and repairs to original cloth. An extremely good copy.
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