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Book Reviews

Autumn 1941

Art Letter: The New Art Books

By Jerome Mellquist

Roman Portraits foreword by Ludwig Goldscheider. Phaidon Edition. Oxford. $3.50 Donatello preface by L. Goldscheider. Phaidon Edition. Oxford. $3.50 Vermeer foreword by Thomas Bodkin. Phaidon Edition. Oxford. $3.50 Erik Gill: […]

Book Reviews

Spring 1948

The Power of an Idea

By Jerome Mellquist

The Innocent Eye by Herbert Read. Holt. $3.50 The Grass Roots of Art by Herbert Read. Illustrated. Wittenborn & Co. $2.00 Guernica by Pablo Picasso. Text by Juan Larrea with […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1943

The Merit of English Painting

By Jerome Mellquist

English Painters: Hogarth to Constable by Andrew C. Ritchie. John Hopkins Press. $2.25.American Leonardo by Carleton Mabee. Knopf. $5.00.American Pioneer Arts and Artists by Carl W. Drepperd. Springfield, Massachusetts: Pond-Ekbert. […]