How I Make A Picture by Peter Helck - Famous Artists Advanced Program
Product Code: 65488
The pages of this copy are beautiful and sharp including the color plates.
This unusual copy has an interesting pedigree. The student's name engraved in gold on the cover is Nixon B. Galloway, who became a listed aviation artist and illustrator.
"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.
Peter Helck (1893-1988) studied art at the Art Students League in Manhattan and later studied in England with muralist Frank Brangwyn. He was "for more than thirty years, the acknowledged leader in the pictorial interpretation of American industry and agriculture." In the mid-forties, he began painting early automobile races and a monograph of these paintings was published in 1975.
This volume is Peter Helck's contribution to the Famous Artists School's Advanced Program. An entire course (7 lessons in 136 pages) written & illustrated by Helck.
Contents:
Meet Peter Helck
Lesson 1: composition (28 pages)
Lesson 2: dramatic composition (18 pages)
Lesson 3: research (20 pages)
Lesson 4: methods and tools (20 pages - Page 19 is a fold-out)
Lesson 5: color (18 pages)
Lesson 6: from sketch to finished painting (18 pages + 2 full color plates)
Lesson 7: an industrial painting from start to finish (14 pages)
As with all our copies of the Famous Artists Courses, we have verified the contents and completeness of this volume.
Helck, Peter
Condition & Attributes
Near Fine in a Very Good binder. The pages and color plates are very clean and sharp. The one-page assignment sheet has torn ringholes but is present. The binder is gnawed at the top corner of the spine, but only lightly rubbed at the other spine ends. The binder is clean and bright.
Publishing Information
Westport, CT
Institute of Commercial Art
1949
1st
Physical Description
14 inches
12 inches
136 pages
2 color plates and over 400 black & white illustrations
Hardcover
printed custom binder
English
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