Juan Dell, The First Lady Of Western Bronze

WALT WIGGINS

Publication: Pintores Press, 1981, Roswell, New Mexico

First edition. 4to. Signed by Juan Dell on the title page. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, cream colored front and rear endpapers, ix, 10 - 80 pp., frontispiece [portrait of Juan Dell], acknowledgements, foreword, illustrated from photographs, color plates, black & white plates, foundry data, bibliography. Foreword by Dr. Harry L. Deupree. Juan Dell was one of the few women western artists working in bronze in the latter part of the 20th century. Dell moved to Santa Fe in the late 1960s and quickly became renown for her bronze works of women, men and animals that all related to the spirit of the West. "This beautiful volume, the artist's first biography, contains a systematic catalogue of Juan Dell's vast production of bronzes." --- Dust jacket blurb. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and top front corner, one small closed tear to the bottom edge of the front cover, one small closed tear to the top edge of the front cover, and a tiny nick to the top edge of the rear cover.

Inventory Number: 50242