One Woman's Work, The Visual Art of Celia Laighton Thaxter

10.25" x 8.5", 200 pages. Pristine copy, very good book, clean text, very good dust jacket. The Visual Art of Celia Laighton Thaxter, an American poet, painter, and china painter. Many photos and illustrations from the artist's life and works in colour and black and white. Our book number 3044.

From Publisher:

Author, independent researcher, and Thaxter enthusiast Sharon Paiva Stephan presents a visual feast of full-color images highlighting the art of Celia Thaxter. Much attention has been focused on this celebrated author's poetry and on her life as a literary figures and artist whose family maintained a resort hotel on the Isles of Shoals. One Woman's Work focuses on a relatively unexplored facet of Thaxter's gifts: her hand-illustrated books, watercolors, and painted china.
The Appledore Island hotel became an artists' retreat in the summer. Celia's own artistic inspiration was drawn from the natural objects that surrounded her on the remote islands off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Her hand-painted china, illustrated poems, and paintings helped earn much-needed financial support for her family, and also provide the backdrop for Stephan's theory that "art was Celia's passion." This impressive collection of 188 previously unpublished full-color photographs of Celia's art, and new scholarly essays by Norma Mandel, Dennis Robinson, Jane Valiier, and Nancy Wetzel introduce readers to a more wholistic side of this noted woman.

Product Info

ISBN: 0914339958

ISBN-13: 9780914339953

Publisher: Portsmouth Athenaeum in association with Isles of Shoals Historical and Research Association

Year: 2003

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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