How I Make A Picture by Austin Briggs - Famous Artists Advanced Program
Product Code: 65485
"America's most famous artists have spent a lot of their time, thought and energy in putting down for you in words and pictures all the ideas and methods they use in making pictures....we are confident you will find it fully expresses the man and his work, and is designed so you can readily understand his way of thinking about picture-making."
The Famous Artists School's Advanced Program which started in 1948 consisted of eleven separate volumes/binders each written and illustrated by a different faculty member (John Atherton, Austin Briggs, Stevan Dohanos, Robert Fawcett, Peter Helck, Fred Ludekens, Al Parker, Norman Rockwell, Ben Stahl, Harold Von Schmidt, Jon Whitcomb). It only lasted for a few years before school president Albert Dorne cancelled the program due to low enrollment and had all the material incinerated (according to an instructor at the school at the time) resulting in the scarcity of the remaining volumes.
This volume is Austin Briggs' contribution to the Famous Artists School's Advanced Program. A 140-page course written and illustrated entirely by Briggs.
The 6-page introduction, Meet Austin Briggs, is by Henry Pitz. Briggs takes over with a general discussion of method, research, design, and painting (lasting 67 pages), and then provides seventeen case histories of actual assignments from beginning sketches to finished illustration to demonstrate his approach to illustration.
As with all our copies of the Famous Artists Courses, we have verified the contents and completeness of this volume.
The three color plates and all 140 lesson pages are present.
The student's name engraved in gold on the cover is Nixon B. Galloway, who became a listed aviation artist and illustrator.
Briggs, Austin
Condition & Attributes
Near Fine in Near Fine binder. Page edges show mild wear and slight toning. Ringholes show only light wear. All three color plates are present. The one-page assignment sheet has a few paint daubs but is present. The binder is lightly rubbed at the spine ends, but clean and bright.
Publishing Information
Westport, CT
Institute of Commercial Art
1952
1st
Physical Description
14 inches
12 inches
140 pages
2 color plates, 1 tipped-in color plate, over 300 black & white illustrations
printed custom binder
English
We ship domestically via USPS Media Mail and Ground Advantage. Faster options, such as Priority Mail, are available.
We ship internationally via USPS Priority Mail International, FedEx, and DHL Express.
You may review all the shipping options for your address at checkout prior to finalizing your order.
We have over 27 years of experience packing and shipping collectible books. We pack every order so it will arrive at its destination in the same condition it left our store.
You may also like
More from Mid-Century Illustrators
