Alston: The Drawings of Charles Alston
Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1980. Good. Item #50179
Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1980. First Edition. Large, slim square quarto (29cm); publisher's green staplebound card wrappers; 28pp.; black and white illus. throughout. Wrappers heavily foxed and a bit rubbed at margins, contents clean and sound.
Rather uncommon guide to the works of the artist and educator Charles Alston, the first Black appointed supervisor of the WPA. Many of the illustrations reproduced here come from Alston's work for the Office of War Information.
Price: $75.00