Artists In Wood: American Carvers of Cigar-Store Indians, Show Figures, and Circus Wagons

Artists In Wood: American Carvers of Cigar-Store Indians, Show Figures, and Circus Wagons by Fried, Frederick. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780517136256.

Thirty-seven biographies and biographical sketches, with photographs of the carvers in their shops, sketches of their work from their own files, and four contemporary catalogs of their creations. Hitherto, hardly any cavers names were only two appear even in the Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers. As a result of the authors extraordinary patience and diligence, collectors, museum curators, or interested amateurs can positively identify figures by carver, provenance, date, and material. The catalogs of cigar=store Indians and show figures furnish manufacturer, original price, and other important data, while the author has supplied a list of prices paid at auctions, collections, and sources, as well as index and bibliography. With 29 illustrations in full color and over 235 in black and white.