Samuel Rothbort: Direct Carver
$35.00 USD • New
New condition exhibition catalogue. Bright, glossy covers. No marks or writing in book. As described by the Smithsonian, "Samuel Rothbort began sculpting at an early age, making animals from bread...
New condition exhibition catalogue. Bright, glossy covers. No marks or writing in book. As described by the Smithsonian, "Samuel Rothbort began sculpting at an early age, making animals from bread dough in his mothers kitchen. As a young man, he worked in a glassware store while also painting fifty-cent charcoal portraits and training to be a leather worker. He immigrated to New York in 1904 and took a variety of unskilled jobs, including night watchman on a construction site. The master builder on the site noticed Rothbort drawing on unfinished plaster and decided he was too talented to be a watchman. As a result, Rothbort became a decorator, creating designs in paint and plaster for the homes of wealthy Manhattanites. For most of his life he ran a farm on Long Island with his wife, Rose, and created many paintings, sculptures, and mosaics that captured, as he described, a little bit of truth from nature."
Product Info
ISBN: 0970572387
ISBN-13: 9780970572387
Publisher: Hollis Taggart Galleries
Year: 2003
Type: New
Binding: Softcover
Seller Info
Schindler-GrafBooksellers
Address: 23046 Detroit Road Westlake , Ohio
Website: https://www.schindler-grafbooksellers.com
Country: United States
