Unsuspected Genius: The Art and Life of Frank Duveneck, 1987, Near Fine HC w/dust jacket

Neuhaus, Robert. San Francisco: Bedford Press, 1987.

English, Near Fine, HC, Folio, 13 1/4" x 11 1/4", 155 pp. 

ISBN: 0938491016

Hardcover in red cloth. Near Fine red pictorial dust jacket, light wear to top edge and tips, now in Mylar. 155 pp. Includes black-and-white and full-color reproductions of Duveneck's paintings. Explores the life and career of American modernist figure and portrait painter Frank Duveneck, through his evolution of styles and subject matter due to transformative life shifts from moving from the American South to a 20-year journey in Europe, then back to the US. From inside the dust jacket: "The author carefully scrutinizes Duveneck's brilliant realist German portraits, the colorfully rich treatments of the Bavarian landscape, the Whistler-influenced light, and soft-hued Italian portraits and landscapes."