T.R.P. MONSABREMareMagnum
Indian Rock Art of the Southwest
198070019Santa Fe and Albuquerque NM: School of American Research; University of New Mexico Press 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. 379pp. Quarto 26.5 cm Natural beige cloth over boards. In the dust jacket with the price in the top fore-edge corner of the front inside flap torn out. The jacket shows pronounced rubbing and has sporadic small closed and open tears in the edges. One of the closed tears along the top edge of the front panel has been repaired with a short piece of tape. From the library of Helen Greene Blumenschein with her bookplates on the front endpaper. Helen Greene Blumenschein 1909-1989 was an artist who was active in New Mexico and New York and who was known for landscape and pueblo scenes. She was the daughter of famous New Mexico artist Ernest Blumenschein. A comprehensive study of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans surveys the rock art of Utah Arizona New Mexico northern Mexico and West Texas from 2000 B.C. to the nineteenth century.<br /> <br /> Inscribed by Schaafsma to Helen on the half title page: "To Helen with / all best wishes- / Polly Schaafsma." Additionally inscribed by the book's photographer Karl Kernberger. School of American Research; University of New Mexico Press hardcover
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