American graphic art

AMERICANARGRAPHICWEITENRAMPFUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAAT LOS ANGELESoiATUBRAH&STUDYS.byLithograph John SargentAMERICANGRAPH I C ARTBYF. WEITENKAMPFArt and Prints New York PublicChief, Divisions, LibraryAuthor of"How to etc.Appreciate Prints,"WITH ILLUSTRATIONSNEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY1912146412COPYRIGHT, 1912,BYHENRY HOLT AND COMPANYPublished October, 1912THE QUINN A BOOFN CO. PREISRAHWAr, N. J.ME:5*05\AJ43o-A WORD OF EXPLANATIONTHE of American and hashistory painting sculpturemore than once in recent That ofbeen written years.the arts as a whole remains to bereproductive graphicThere are such as Linton'stold. W.monographs J.and record of Americanexcellent partly polemicaland Hitchcock's useful vol-wood-engraving Ripley veryume on in the United both inStates,etching publishedthe of the last There D. McN.is, too,eighties century.Stauffer's record of our onalphabetical engravers copper,an invaluable book of reference. But the connectedonlyand account of American artcomprehensive graphic ap-to in German. In the last decade ofpeared, strange say,the nineteenth thecentury, Gesellschaft fur Fervielfalti-of issued its monumental four-Vienna,gende Kunst,"volume work on thecontemporary reproductive art,"of the achievement of the nineteenth Inhistory century.the American section was covered the late S. R.this, byKoehler for and and theetching wood-engraving by pres-ent writer for The is one worth tell-lithography. storyin ...