Les Peintres Indiens D'Amérique

Title and plate of Les Peintres Indiens d'Amerique, vol. 2
Adoption Amount: $1,200
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Location: Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology

Les peintres indiens d'Amérique, Vol. 2

By Oscar Brousse Jacobson. Nice: C. Szwedzicki, 1950.

These two portfolio volumes — each available separately for adoption — contain 77 individual plates by Native American artists. The author Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882-1966) a Swedish-born American was a painter himself and a collector of Native American art. He served as the director of the University of Oklahoma's School of Art from 1915 to 1954. Most of the paintings reproduced in the portfolio are from Jacobson’s personal collection and each volume includes a description, in both French and English, of each plate incorporating his personal reminiscences of the artist, as well as specific cultural and historical information. The plates were printed in the pochoir manner which emphasizes clean lines and bright colors.

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