Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

The Chouinard Art Institute

Los Angeles: Chouinard Art Institute, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. Unpaginated, (4) 16( 4)pp. Original black wraps with blind-stamped decor and silver lettering on cover. Purple red front endpaper with printed silver decor and lettering and same color free endpaper. Blue paper pages in front and at rear, here with advertisement of Chouinard Night School Classes. Photo-illustrated title page. B/w portrait photograph of founder Nelbert M. Chouinard on verso of title page. Prospectus for the art school profusely illustrated with distinctive b/w photographs of the members of the various faculties, e.g. Phil Paradise (Director Fine Arts), Merle Armitage (Mural Painting), Aileen (Fashion Illustration), Harold Miles (Director School of Motion Picture Art), Beatrice Bovo Phelps (Director Costume Design) among others, and reproductions of student artwork. Beautifully produced prospectus for the famous Los Angeles art school. Laid in an offset reproduction of a photograph of 45 Olvera Street by Los Angeles photographer Viroque Baker (8 x 6"). Wrappers and colored papers with light wear along edges, cover with light scuffing. Block lightly age-toned, not affecting images and with light bump at lower right corner throughout. Wrappers in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition. g+. Item #37257

Price: $175.00

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