Oliver Larkin, Art & Life in America, Revised Ed., 1964, illustrated

"Art and Life in America" by Oliver W. Larkin, A New Revised & Enlarged Edition with 464 Illustrations- 30 in Full Color- And A New Chapter Covering the Art and Culture of Our Times. Published by? Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, April 1964. The Foreword To The Revised Edition is dated June 1960.

Dust jacket with original unclipped price of $15.00 on the front flap [wear, small damages-- the dj is in fair condition]; hard boards, beige cloth with brown lettering on front board and spine; 8.1/4" x 11.1/4"; 559 pages including index. Former library book with stamps and pocket on the back endpaper, the jacket was attached to the endpapers and left a residue, good condition, very good reading copy.

Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin was first published in 1949 by Rinehart & Company, and won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a book which comprehensively deals about Art and artists in the United States.

From 1949 through the 1960s, Larkin's Art and Life in America served as a standard text for the study of American art and culture. A large and scholarly tome provides a unique perspective on American Society beginning with the founding of the Republic.

Oliver Waterman Larkin (1896-1970) was an American art historian and educator. He won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Art and Life in America. He was an associate professor by 1926, and in 1931 a full professor. He briefly also taught at Iowa State University in 1925 and 1926. He was later named Jessie Wells Post Professor of Art. In 1950 and 1955 Larkin lectured for European students at the Harvard Student Council's seminars on American studies in Salzburg. He retired from Smith College in 1964, as professor emeritus.

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