For eighteen months Robert Hanna put his architectural career aside to drive his faithful Dodge Aspen back and forth across Nebraska. He logged fifteen thousand through all seasons and weather. He ducked tornadoes and braved snowstorms to draw barns, bridges, depots, mills, storefronts, mansions, courthouses, churches, theaters, band-stands, ballparks, and other monuments to the human proclivity for building. "My book of drawings and watercolors is a celebration of spaces--little spaces, really. Set down a towering county ...
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For eighteen months Robert Hanna put his architectural career aside to drive his faithful Dodge Aspen back and forth across Nebraska. He logged fifteen thousand through all seasons and weather. He ducked tornadoes and braved snowstorms to draw barns, bridges, depots, mills, storefronts, mansions, courthouses, churches, theaters, band-stands, ballparks, and other monuments to the human proclivity for building. "My book of drawings and watercolors is a celebration of spaces--little spaces, really. Set down a towering county courthouse in the middle of a wide Nebraska horizon, and even government looks mighty small," writes Hanna. "I have drawn and painted these pictures from inside the world of the buildings and places they represent." This record of an appreciative journey from Santee to Bayard, from Otoe County to Sioux County, from Carhenge at Alliance to the train station at Weeping Water, from Maskell's one-room city hall to the state capitol, from Omaha cityscapes to Sandhills landscapes, from North Plane to West Point and points in between is a work to savor and treasure.
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Good. jacket. Hardcover with DJ. The DJ has light wear, the front flap has been price clipped. Light waviness to the pages, light foxing to the page edges. PO name in the front. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 4to. 155 pps. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.
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Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author(s) 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 155 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good plus dust jacket. Jacket not price clipped. NOTE: Inscribed by author on the title page: "To Sonia, Always my best---Robert Hanna, January 2003". This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
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1992 Hanna, Robert A NEBRASKA PORTFOLIO Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992 155 watercolor, pen and ink sketches of Nebraska scenes Rectangular lg 8vo As new unread hardcover in as new d/j.
Robert Hanna's Nebraska Portfolio is a beautiful collection of drawings that capture the disappearing landscape of the Nebraska openness, the landmarks that are gone now or barely hanging on, and he does so with an appreciative eye and with fondness. Hanna is to be complimented for the truthfulness of his recordings without sentimentality. I'm extremely pleased with his contribution and feel that the book is a treasure to own. I recommend the book to artists, drawers, and historians.
