VINTAGE caricatures WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, EUGENE O'NEILL, CARL SANDBURG+

Description: First Edition. A good copy. Has bookplates and an ad pasted inside the front cover. Cover is faded and worn around the edges. Pages are tightly bound without any underlines, marginalia, foxing, bends. How the book is fashioned: the individual being caricatured (i.e. Dreiser) writes a squib across from his/her caricature and on the following page the book lists that author's published works to date (which, in this case, is 1929). Smoke-free. Many of the authors depicted by Herrmann were denizens of the Algonquin Round table, Broadway, and Hollywood: CONRAD AIKEN, MAXWELL ANDERSON, SHERWOOD ANDERSON, THOMAS BEER, VAN WYCK BROOKS, HEYWOOD BROUN, WITTER BYNNER, JAMES BRANCH CABELL, HENRY SEIDEL CANBY, COUNTEE CULLEN, JOHN DOS PASOS, THEODORE DREISER., JOHN ERSKINE, WALDO FRANK, GALE AREA, JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER, SIDNEY HOWARD, FANNIE HURST, JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, GEORGE S. KAUFMAN, HARRY KEMP, MANUEL KOMROFF, ALFRED KREYMBORG, SINCLAIR LEWIS, VACHEL LINDSAY, H.L. MENCKEN, EUGENE O'NEILL, JULIA PETERKIN, PAUL ROSENFELD, EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, CARL SANDBURG, UPTON SINCLAIR, DONALD OGDEN STEWART, RUTH SUCKOW, GENEVIEVE TAGGARD, CARL VAN DOREN, IRITA VAN DOREN, MARK VAN DOREN, CARL VAN VECHTEN, THORNTON WILDER, WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, W.E. WOODWARD. From ARTS IN EXILE ... "Although [Herrmann] originally wanted to become known as a painter, her artistic work also included book covers and, above all, drawings and caricatures. Her breakthrough finally came in 1929 with the release of On parade, a collection of caricatures of American authors. ... Herrmann moved to Hollywood in the forties where she lived as part of the local emigrant community. While her caricatures are characterized by clear lines and a certain austerity, she became increasingly interested in spiritual phenomena which her work dealt with in her later phases. In his 1960 retrospective Mein zwanzigstes Jahrhundert, philosopher and writer Ludwig Marcuse summed her up as someone who was very rational who believed in ghosts. ... Eva Herrmann’s oeuvre contains drawings, graphics, monotypes and prints. Her drawings include portraits of well-known people such as Bertolt Brecht, Thomas E. Dewey, Albert Einstein, Sergej M. Eisenstein, Lion Feuchtwanger, Aldous Huxley, Egon Erwin Kisch, members of the Mann family, Joseph Roth and Arnold Zweig." (This latter group are not in this book, which dwells mostly on American authors.) Ref: https://kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/EN/Persons/herrmann-eva-en.htmlWe try our best to accurately describe the age and condition of items, wrap them carefully, ship them quickly, and maintain good communication. Please have a look at the photos and send questions you might have about the item. We will do our best to answer quickly. We ship to the address verified by eBay.

Price: 44 USD

Location: Toronto, Ontario

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