First Hand Catalogue
10.5"x9", 274pp., $50Edited by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher
Paperback, 10.5"x9", 274 pages (118 color plates), $50
Publishing for the first time more than one hundred thirty-five drawings by Joseph Becker and thirteen of his colleagues, who, during the nineteenth century, served as artist-reporters for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. These Special Artists drew and sent back for publication images of the Civil War, construction of the railroads and transatlantic cable, Chinese in the West, Indian wars, Great Chicago Fire, and other American milestones.
Edited by Judith Bookbinder (Art History, BC) and Sheila Gallagher (Studio Art, BC) includes essays by the editors as well as by Vincent Cannato (History, University of Massachusetts, Boston), Robert Emlen (University Curator, Brown University), Harry Katz (former Curator of Prints and Drawings, Library of Congress), Lucia Knoles (English, Assumption College), James O’Toole (History, BC), Natasha Seaman, (Art History, Rhode Island College), Nirmal Trivedi (English, BC), and James Wallace (English, BC).
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