Gallery of Western Paintings, First Edition, 1951, HC, VG.

Carlson, Raymond. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1951.

English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to, 12 1/4" x 9 1/4", [4] 85 pp.

Laid-in envelope with 3 full-color loose plates. Red pictorial cloth over board, featuring laid-in full-color illustration to front panel, toning to text block, light wear to tips, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Very Good white pictorial dust jacket, featuring full-color image to front panel, Gerard Curtis Delano's artwork "Navajo Boy" to back panel, black-and-white photograph of Raymond Carlson to interior flap, white lettering to front panel, black lettering to back panel and interior flaps, light brown lettering to spine, some chips and wear, minor toning and soiling, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar-sleeve. [4] 85 pp. Includes 76 illustrations, including 64 full-color images, 20 line drawings by Ross Santee (1888-1965), Foreword and descriptive text by editor, Raymond Carlson, 8 sections on Western painters: Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), William R. Leigh (1866-1955), Gray Bartlett (1885-1951), Frederic Remington (1861-1909), Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Gerard Curtis Delano (1890-1972), James E. Swinnerton (1875-1974), and Ray Strang (1893-1957). From inside the dust jacket: "Two of these, Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, have stood the test of time so well that they are now considered among the immortals of American Art. An ever-increasing and appreciative audience is bestowing just praise upon such artists as Bartlett, Delano, Dixon, Leigh, Strang, and Swinnerton, all of whose paintings deal with different phase and facets of Western life."