Elementary Schools as a Career for High School Girls.
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[Education] Jackman, Rilla Evelyn.American Arts. Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, (1928).
8vo.; illustrated with 460 photographs and 5 line drawings; contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown; blue cloth, stamped in gilt.
First edition of this serious study of the history and emergence of art in America by the Head of Public School Art Department, Collection of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, with chapters devoted to “American Training” primarily of women painters and sculptors, as well as of the pottery achievements of the women of Newcomb College and the work of Adelaide Alsop Robineau. An book important in furthering interest in American art when most connoisseurs had turned their undivided attention to Europe, by an early female proponent of art education in American schools.
A presentation copy, inscribed: As the sun colors flowers, so art colors life. Rilla Evelyn Jackman. April 8, 1930. With a Christmas Greeting signed on the verso by Jackman: a gelatin silver photograph of her portrait painting of a little girl entitled “Beatrice.”
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