This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...but anything really good awakens the old response. The long lines of people standing for hours in the rain to gain admission to the galleries for a Wagner opera or an Irving play are sufficient index. Two new theatres are to be erected in the immediate future which will add greatly to the dramatic possibilities of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...but anything really good awakens the old response. The long lines of people standing for hours in the rain to gain admission to the galleries for a Wagner opera or an Irving play are sufficient index. Two new theatres are to be erected in the immediate future which will add greatly to the dramatic possibilities of the city. Cheap opera, both light and grand, for which we are indebted to the German residents, is a constant feature of the theatrical world in San Francisco. Although the city has been for years a center for artists, sending forth many painters of distinction and better still keeping a few at home, it has no art gallery save the collection in the Mark Hopkins School of Art. Here are some admirable works, but the building is peculiarly ill adapted for displaying them. Paintings by many of the famous European masters are owned in San Francisco, and at occasional loan exhibitions are publicly displayed. Of local painters William Keith stands alone in his art as a master of landscape. Such poetry of field and grove, of mountain and forest, of moving clouds and breaking sunshine, has made his work loved more deeply than widely by all who know California and appreciate the great earth mother. Some day the East will awaken to the fact that the greatest of American landscape painters has been working away on the Pacific shore all these years, and then he will be "discovered." The work of Thomas Hill in portraying the larger scenes of California, especially of the high Sierra Nevada Mountains, has given him a national reputation. In portraiture, the tender feeling, the warm coloring and free handling of mother and child pictures has won a circle of enthusiastic admirers for Mary Curtis Richardson. The moonlight scenes of Charles Rollo Peters, t...
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Publisher:
The California Promotion Committee. 1903
Published:
01/1903
Alibris ID:
16524642183
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Fair. Fair hardcover, no dustcover. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbings/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges very slightly cracked but binding still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1906. Good., Hardcover, Octavo, 97. Original green cloth. Pictorial front cover. 97 pages. New edition, 1906. Text clean. Page edges untrimmed. Sepia-tone photo illustrations. Bottom edge rubbed and worn. Small bumps to cover corners. Several small stains on front. Packed and shipped with care.
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Good+ No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 100 pp. Original gray pictorial cloth covers, moderately soiled and lightly rubbed. Spine ends a bit bumped. Light dusting to edges of text block. Light soiling to blank endpapers. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. Illust. w/ b/w plates. A strong, sturdy copy.
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Keeler, Louise. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual library markings. Cover and other parts of the book have some wear and soiling. 6 p. l., 97, [1] p. plates. 25 cm. Map (with color) at back. Illustrations of pre-earthquake San Francisco. From Wikipedia: "Charles Augustus Keeler (October 7, 1871 July 31, 1937) was an American author, poet, ornithologist and advocate for the arts, particularly architecture. Keeler Avenue in Berkeley, California is named after him. The desire of Keeler to promote locally architecture integrated with nature, in keeping with Arts and Crafts movement ideals, prompted creation of the Hillside Club in 1898. Keeler became its first secretary (1902 1903) and second president (1903 1905). He was a member of the Author's Club of London and the New York Author's Club. In 1921-23 he was president of the California Writers Club. He was friends with many influential naturalists and outdoorsmen, including John Muir, John Burroughs, painter William Keith and developer Duncan McDuffie men who today would be called environmentalists. He was a charter member of the Sierra Club."
