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Seller's Description:
Good. 1991 first/limited edition B.A. Coterie, Ltd. (San Francisco, California), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall paperbound in grey embossed covers, 62 pp. Moderate marginal age toning to front and rear covers and spine. Minor rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a very faint ghost of what may have been an institutional received stamp to the lower part of the front cover. Very faint marginal age toning within, not affecting the text or prints. Otherwise, a very good copy-clean, bright and unmarked-of this scarce 1991 exhibition book. With a preface in English, French and Japanese, and 17 full-color plates of Sumida's work. ~BB~ Contents: Foreword, by Mark Hoffman, Jim Clark and J.B. Zantman; Introduction: 'Persistence of Vision, ' by Patricia Smith; Preface, by Gregory Sumida; Plates 1-17; Resume; Partial Collectors List; Acknowledgements. Born and raised in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles to Japanese parents, Gregory Sumida (b. 1948) is a painter of 'Old World dedication. ' He grinds his own paints, stretches the canvases and makes the frames. His primary subjects are Plains Indians in landscape, such as Crows and Shoshones, and his primary media are gouache, charcoal, watercolor, tempera, and oils. His styles vary from impressionism to realism to western to Japanese influence, and he is dedicated to continually changing and growing.
