Hedgpeth, Don. Bettina: Portraying Life in Art.
Item #8014
155 pp.; 4to; slipcase; paper covers; stamped in silver leather spine; original signed watercolor; 23 color plates, and b&w sketches; foreword by Eric Sloane. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1978. First Edition; special edition no. 91 of 100 copies. Bettina Steinke, 1913 - 1976. Lived in Sante Fe New Mexico, known for painting Indian subjects and portraits. Attended Fawcett's Art School in Newark, NJ, then Cooper Union and Phoenix Art Inst. in New York. In 1947 she married photographer Don Blair with whom she traveled to Central and South America and into the Arctic, sketching Indian and Eskimo scenes for future paintings. Four portraits including those of Joel McCrea and Will Rogers are in the permanent collection of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. (Samuels. Artists of the American West). Sunned edges on slipcase, sticker residue on spine; near fine condition. |
